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By Lynn Nichols
For five years, Diana Topete couldn’t freely eat. She rarely had the chance to enjoy her favorite foods—seafood, tacos, ice cream—with her family and friends. That’s because she didn’t have any intestines.
Instead of eating, Diana was fed intravenously. For 12 hours each day, she was hooked up to parenteral nutrition, or TPN, which delivers liquid nutrients through a central line or semipermanent IV. There’s no pleasure in it, but it kept her alive.
Read the full story in Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
662620login-checkTeen Taking on Life After Intestine-Liver-Pancreas Transplant |