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Four cases of this rare disease are presented and the reports of the literature are reviewed. The anamnestic, clinical, roentgenologic and anatomo-pathologic findings are discussed mainly in view of aetiopathogenesis and differential diagnosis with numerous congenital obstructive diseases.
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In the paediatric field cases of patients subjected to massive intestinal resection (M.I.R.) are more and more frequent; this survival of individuals with a small intestine shorter than 30 centimeters is not to be considered exceptional. Without going as far as such extreme limits of short residual intestine, intestinal resections contributed to create a new pathology represented by those patients who, once they have been subjected to particularly extended intestinal resections, need a particularly responsible nutritional therapy, sometimes with very long hospitalizations. The present study is to appraise the nutritional parameters and the residual absorption capacity of a group of patients in pediatric age subjected to intestinal resection, in order to draw up a record enabling to monitor, as time goes on, the intestinal functionality of those patients and to observe as early as possible the consequences of an alteration of intestinal physiology while creating the premisis for appropriate measures of nutritional supplementing.
Authors present their experience about nutritional treatment of short bowel syndrome in newborns. Their results seem to demonstrate that right approach to this problem is to start enteral nutrition as soon as possible, using mainly human milk and polimeric nutritional solutions. There are several experimental evidences that this kind of nutritional approach promote intestinal adaptation following massive intestinal resections.