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Nutritional therapy of hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease

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The use of total parenteral nutrition and enteral nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease has become commonplace. Except for well-documented improvements in nutritional parameters, the efficacy of these treatments for primary therapy or for complications remains largely unproven.

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Room F-137, Koerner Pavilion, Health Sciences Center Hospital, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, V6T 1W5, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    J. S. Whittaker MD, FRCP (C)

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Whittaker, J.S. Nutritional therapy of hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Digest Dis Sci 32 (Suppl 12), S89–S94 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01312471

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