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AAP Grand Rounds 4:36 (2000) Enteral Feeding Improves Growth in Severe Chronic Renal FailureSource: Kari JA, Gonzalez C, Ledermann SE, et al. Outcome and growth of infants with severe chronic renal failure. Kidney Int. 2000;57:16811687.
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 015 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
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