Parenteral Nutrition in Chronic Intestinal Failure: Challenges, Innovations and Future Directions
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 3
Special Issue Editor
Interests: clinical nutrition; malnutrition; artificial (enteral and parenteral) nutrition indications; monitoring and complications; obesity; nutritional follow-up after bariatric surgery; cachexia; sarcopenia; sarcopenic obesity; eating disorders; body composition
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Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to contribute to this upcoming Special Issue of Nutrients, entitled “Parenteral Nutrition in Chronic Intestinal Failure: Challenges, Innovations and Future Directions”.
Chronic intestinal failure (CIF) remains a major clinical challenge. Many specialists still do not know how to manage it, and it is often underestimated. Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a life-saving therapy for many of these patients, yet it also raises complex issues regarding long-term management, nutritional adequacy, and the prevention of complications.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances and ongoing challenges in the field, with a focus on the following topics:
- The nutritional needs of patients with chronic intestinal failure and the clinical consequences of nutritional deficiencies;
- The correct management of vascular access devices for parenteral nutrition to prevent thrombotic and infectious complications;
- The impact of intestinal microbiota alterations and their interplay with nutritional and clinical outcomes;
- The role of preventive antithrombotic strategies in patients on long-term PN to minimize vascular complications, including the use of taurolidine;
- The psychological burden, anxiety, and quality of life of patients and caregivers;
- Emerging therapies aimed at reducing dependence on parenteral nutrition, including teduglutide.
By collating high-quality original research and comprehensive reviews, we hope to provide clinicians and researchers with an updated perspective on this rapidly evolving field and to keep the medical community fully engaged in optimizing care for patients with CIF.
We warmly invite you to submit your valuable work to this Special Issue and join us in advancing the knowledge and practice of parenteral nutrition for chronic intestinal failure.
Dr. Lidia Santarpia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chronic intestinal failure (CIF)
- home parenteral nutrition (HPN)
- intestinal microbiota
- teduglutide
- quality of life
- caregivers
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