BODY COMPOSITION AND NUTRITIONAL INTAKES IN PATIENTS WITH SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME IN HOME PARENTERAL NUTRITION

Short-Bowel-Syndrome (SBS) is one of the most common causes of a rare disease: Intestinal-Failure (IF). Home-Parenteral-Nutrition (HPN) is a life-saving-therapy, the main and most effective medical-nutritional treatment to prevent malnutrition in SBS. A regular monitoring of the nutritional-status is essential to estimate the effectiveness of the treatment. We detected anthropometric measures, BIA-BIVA, parenteral-enteral nutrition-intakes and outputs (diuresis-feces-stoma) to describe the trends during 1year follow-up from the beginning of the HPN. We collected data on 39-SBS patients (M23+F16), age 63±13, residual-bowel-length cm103±54 (65% patients without ileocecal-valve, 64% with Ileostomy) in charge to our center during the last 2 year (T0 = early-assessment-treatment, T1 = after 2-months, T2 = after 6-months, T3 = after-1 year) to assess nutritional status using BIA-BIVA values, BMI, nutritional intakes and outputs. Body composition trend is described in tab.1. We found a significant reduction in TBW% both for males and females from T0vsT3 (p BIVA may represent a simple and affordable non-invasive way to monitor SBS patients, helping nutritional follow-up during HPD. Our results suggest an adaptation of residual-bowel-function after 1-year confirmed by a reduction of fecal-output. An increase in oral-intake was observed which allowed a reduction of parenteral-nutrition burden. Strict and adequate nutritional monitoring is a key-point to obtain improvements in body-composition and nutritional-status in these patients.