Infant & Toddler Short Gut Feeding Outcomes Study

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Status: Completed

Conditions: Home Parenteral Nutrition; Intestinal Failure; Short Bowel Syndrome

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01946503

CCI-13-00053

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to better understand why children with short gut develop feeding problems.

Full description

We seek to identify characteristics of our patients' histories that are associated with feeding problems in the context of availability of early prophylactic occupational therapy. We plan to review our most recent four years' experience in children with short gut syndrome with onset in early infancy who initially required home parenteral nutrition to identify risk factors or clusters of risk factors associated with food aversion.

Enrollment: 58 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 months to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients seen in home-TPN clinic since July of 2008 with:
• Intestinal failure
• Short gut
• Onset < 3 months of age
• Received home parenteral nutrition following initial hospital discharge
• Less than 7 years of age at time of study
• Must have at least 1 parent/legal guradian willing to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Not seen in home TPN clinic
• Short gut with onset >3 months
• No parents/legal guradians willing to participate in the study

Trial design

58 participants in 2 patient groups

Short bowel syndrome

Description:

Patients followed in a clinic for short bowel syndrome

Healthy controls

Description:

Patients seen in a general pediatric clinic without chronic or acute diseases