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Conditions Treated - Total Parenteral Nutrition
Conditions for Which We Use Total Parenteral Nutrition
TPN helps you maintain adequate nutrition when your body is unable to process food taken by mouth. This can happen when you have:
- An abnormal connection between two organs (fistula)
- Bowel obstruction
- Crohn's disease (in severe cases)
- Gastrointestinal cancer
- Intestinal failure
- Malnutrition
- Gastrectomy
- Short bowel syndrome