Nutritional treatment of congenital heart disease.
Open Access
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 61 (8) , 799-801
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.61.8.799
Abstract
Twelve of 13 patients with congenital heart disease given continuous enteral nutrition displayed normal growth; cardiac function remained stable or improved in 10 in spite of the water load (146 +/- 22 ml/kg/day). This is safe treatment for malnutrition in congenital heart disease.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Continuous Enteral FeedingsAmerican Journal of Diseases of Children, 1982
- Growth Failure and Congenital Heart DiseaseAmerican Journal of Diseases of Children, 1970