Teen Taking on Life After Intestine-Liver-Pancreas Transplant
Stanford Childrens
APRIL 24, 2023
For 12 hours each day, she was hooked up to parenteral nutrition , or TPN, which delivers liquid nutrients through a central line or semipermanent IV. Put simply, her intestines caused her pain and no longer worked well enough to sustain her growth and nutrition. That’s because she didn’t have any intestines.
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