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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Salvatori, Guglielmo
• De Rose, Domenico Umberto
• Massolo, Anna Claudia
• Patel, Neil
• Capolupo, Irma
• Giliberti, Paola
• Evangelisti, Melania
• Parisi, Pasquale
• Toscano, Alessandra
• Dotta, Andrea
• Di Nardo, Giovanni

Titel

Current Strategies to Optimize Nutrition and Growth in Newborns and Infants with Congenital Heart Disease: A Narrative Review

Ist Teil von

• Journal of clinical medicine, 2022-03, Vol.11 (7), p.1841

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: MDPI AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

EZB Free E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (1) Objective: This review aims to identify the clinical and practical barriers to optimizing nutrition in newborn infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) and to describe updated evidence-based recommendations for clinical and nutritional management of these patients in a narrative review. (2) Research Methods and Procedures: We conducted a search of the relevant literature published from 2000 to December 2021. (3) Results: CHD patients undergo several nutritional challenges related to the underlying cardiac disease anomaly, the potential increased risk of NEC, and delayed enteral feeding, resulting in inadequate energy intake and sub-optimal growth, increased morbidity and mortality. (4) Conclusions: To optimize nutrition and growth in newborn infants with CHD, standardized protocols should be implemented. Regular nutritional and growth assessment with a multi-disciplinary team is essential. We propose a decisional algorithm that may represent a potentially useful tool to guide clinicians to optimize growth and nutrition.