ESPE Abstracts

Malnutrition, including that caused by malabsorption, is the most common cause of growth failure in children. On the other hand, in children who receive total parenteral nutrition due to extremely severe forms of malabsorption disorders, which involves almost continuous intravenous infusion of nutrients (including glucose), a persistent, functional reduction in growth hormone secretion occurs. A female patient with extreme short bowel syndrome, fed almost entirely parenterally...