10 year follow-up of a patient with short-bowel syndrome and parenteral nutrition-dependency

Introduction: In a subset of patients with short bowel sydrome with a residual length of small bowel shorter than 50cm the mainstay of nutritional theraphy is parenteral nutrition. In these cases, delivering regular paranteral nutrition may be challenging, partly because of the current regulations Hungarian health policy wich states that this type of treatment must be applied only in the frame of inpatient care facility. Long-term symptome free survival and good quality of life can be achieved with total parenteral nutrition in these patients. In this report we give an overiew of a 10 years clinical course of a…