Total parenteral nutrition and home parenteral nutrition: an effective combination to sustain malnourished children with cancer.
A patient with Wilms' tumor and severe failure to thrive required total parenteral nutrition (TPN) for "catch-up" growth. This case underscores how TPN might be useful in the management of a child with cancer. Cancer cachexia, chemotherapy, radiation, and infections caused by immune suppression can lead to potentially serious macro- and micronutrient deficiencies.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Bologna, Italy.
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D005183:Failure to Thrive / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D016331:Parenteral Nutrition, Home; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D009396:Wilms Tumor / Q000150:complications*