Pediatric Nutrition and Health and Food Science
News in Pediatric Intestinal Pseudo-obstruction
Antonella Diamanti, Fabio Fusaro1Tamara Caldaro Teresa Capriati Manila Candusso Valerio Nobili 2Osvaldo Borrelli
1Unità Operativa di Chirurgia ed Endoscopia Digestiva, Ospedale pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Roma Unità Operativa Epatologia e Gastroenterologia,Ospedale pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Roma Divisione di Neurogastroenterologia e Motilità, Dipartimento di gastroenterologia pediatrica,2Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Pediatric intestinal pseudo-obstruction (PIPO)is the mostsevere disorders of gut motility with high levels ofmorbidity and mortality. We reviewed all children fulfillingnew PIPO criteria over a 30-year period in PediatricHospital Bambino Gesù, aiming at evaluating long-termnutritional outcomes (overall survival, prevalence ofenteral autonomy and parenteral nutrition dependency andrate of major complications) and clinical characteristics(onset and growth course).