TPN is a palliative, but life-saving treatment for patients with terminal and irreversible intestinal failure. During the last decade, intestine transplantation has become the most realistic ...

Parenteral nutrition is a method of feeding in which nutrition goes directly to the bloodstream. A person may need it if feeding through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract cannot fulfill their body’s ...

As recently announced, initial proof-of-concept results from this ongoing investigator-initiated trial (IIT) show crofelemer reduced the required total parenteral nutrition in the first participating ...