Infectious complications in home parenteral nutrition: a long-term study with peripherally inserted central catheters, tunneled catheters and ports.

Parenteral nutrition has become a common therapy for patients at home. National registries in North America, including 1251 patients enrolled from 29 sites for the last years, showed a 28% of all patients expected to require HPN indefinitely [1]. In Spain, the last analysis of our national registry has shown a total of 220 patients and 229 episodes of HPN registered from 37 centers that represents a rate of 4.7 patients/million habitants/year [2]. Currently, the leading cause for HPN is cancer in adults and congenital intestinal disorders in children [2,3].

Source: Nutrition - July 12, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: Elisa Santacruz, Raquel Mateo-Lobo, Javier Riveiro, Lia Nattero, Bel én Vega-Piñero, Gema Lomba Bach, Raquel Sabido Bach, Fátima Carabaña Bach, Francisco J. Arrieta, Jose I. Botella-Carretero Source Type: research