Total Parenteral Nutrition During Pregnancy in a Patient Requiring Long‐Term Nutrition Support

Abstract

Patients on long-term TPN can conceive successfully and carry a pregnancy to term without any adverse outcome for the mother or the fetus. TPN feeding during pregnancy and recommendations for maternal weight gain are reviewed.

Conception, Pregnancy, and Lactation Despite Chronic Intestinal Failure Requiring Home Parenteral Nutrition

“…In a systematic literature review, we identified 14 publications describing 15 cases of parenteral nutrition from preconception to delivery in 14 women dependent on long‐term HPN 7 – 20 . Here, we additionally report the case of a 26‐year‐old Caucasian woman with SBS secondary to recurrent thromboembolic mesenteric infarctions receiving both HPN and high‐dose dual anticoagulation throughout pregnancy and beyond.…”