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AAP Grand Rounds 4:36 (2000)
© 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics

NEPHROLOGY

Enteral Feeding Improves Growth in Severe Chronic Renal Failure

Source: Kari JA, Gonzalez C, Ledermann SE, et al. Outcome and growth of infants with severe chronic renal failure. Kidney Int. 2000;57:1681–1687.

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This study, done at Great Ormond St. Hospital for Children, evaluated growth in 81 of 101 children with end stage renal disease that survived at least 2 years after diagnosis of chronic renal failure. The median age at presentation was 0.3 years (range 0–15 years) and the median follow up was 7.6 years. Eighty-one percent were enterally fed starting at age zero to 4.5 years for a median duration of 1.9 years. Forty-six percent had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alan B. Gruskin, MD
Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI