Doctors say total parenteral nutrition can cost $200 to $500 a day.
But he noted that these patients have only a short time to live, with or without total parenteral nutrition.
But parenteral nutrition may offer nutritional benefits to patients even if it doesn't help with the treatment of disease.
People have survived on total parenteral nutrition for more than 35 years, living fully productive lives.
Parenteral nutrition is used only in patients who need nutrition support for five days or more.
Nutritional requirements, he maintained, could in theory be provided with total parenteral nutrition.
These include some chemotherapy drugs and total parenteral nutrition.
Essential nature of choline with implications for total parenteral nutrition.
Total parenteral nutrition allows the intestines to rest and heal.
In newborn infants, the 4-year survival rate on parenteral nutrition is approximately 70%.