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ESPEN Guidelines on Parenteral Nutrition: Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) in adult patients
Clinical Nutrition, 08/20/09

Staun M et al. – Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) was introduced as a treatment modality in the early 1970s primarily for the treatment of chronic intestinal failure in patients with benign disease. The relatively low morbidity and mortality associated with HPN has encouraged its widespread use in western countries. Thus there is huge clinical experience, but there are still few controlled clinical studies of treatment effects and management of complications.

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