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. 2023 Oct;42(10):1940-2021.
doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2023.07.019. Epub 2023 Jul 29.

ESPEN guideline on chronic intestinal failure in adults - Update 2023

Loris Pironi  1 , Cristina Cuerda  2 , Palle Bekker Jeppesen  3 , Francisca Joly  4 , Cora Jonkers  5 , Željko Krznarić  6 , Simon Lal  7 , Georg Lamprecht  8 , Marek Lichota  9 , Manpreet S Mundi  10 , Stéphane Michel Schneider  11 , Kinga Szczepanek  12 , André Van Gossum  13 , Geert Wanten  14 , Carolyn Wheatley  15 , Arved Weimann  16
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ESPEN guideline on chronic intestinal failure in adults - Update 2023

Loris Pironi et al. Clin Nutr. 2023 Oct.

Abstract

Background & aims: In 2016, ESPEN published the guideline for Chronic Intestinal Failure (CIF) in adults. An updated version of ESPEN guidelines on CIF due to benign disease in adults was devised in order to incorporate new evidence since the publication of the previous ESPEN guidelines.

Methods: The grading system of the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) was used to grade the literature. Recommendations were graded according to the levels of evidence available as A (strong), B (conditional), 0 (weak) and Good practice points (GPP). The recommendations of the 2016 guideline (graded using the GRADE system) which were still valid, because no studies supporting an update were retrieved, were reworded and re-graded accordingly.

Results: The recommendations of the 2016 guideline were reviewed, particularly focusing on definitions, and new chapters were included to devise recommendations on IF centers, chronic enterocutaneous fistulas, costs of IF, caring for CIF patients during pregnancy, transition of patients from pediatric to adult centers. The new guideline consist of 149 recommendations and 16 statements which were voted for consensus by ESPEN members, online in July 2022 and at conference during the annual Congress in September 2022. The Grade of recommendation is GPP for 96 (64.4%) of the recommendations, 0 for 29 (19.5%), B for 19 (12.7%), and A for only five (3.4%). The grade of consensus is "strong consensus" for 148 (99.3%) and "consensus" for one (0.7%) recommendation. The grade of consensus for the statements is "strong consensus" for 14 (87.5%) and "consensus" for two (12.5%).

Conclusions: It is confirmed that CIF management requires complex technologies, multidisciplinary and multiprofessional activity, and expertise to care for the underlying gastrointestinal disease and to provide HPN support. Most of the recommendations were graded as GPP, but almost all received a strong consensus.

Keywords: Guideline; Home parenteral nutrition; Intestinal dysmotility; Intestinal failure; Intestinal transplantation; Short bowel syndrome.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest The expert members of the working group were accredited by the ESPEN Guidelines Group, the ESPEN Education and Clinical Practice Committee, and the ESPEN executive. All expert members have declared their individual conflicts of interest according to the rules of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). If potential conflicts were indicated, they were reviewed by the ESPEN guideline officers and, in cases of doubts, by the ESPEN executive. None of the expert panel had to be excluded from the working group or from co-authorship because of serious conflicts. The conflict of interest forms are stored at the ESPEN guideline office and can be reviewed with legitimate interest upon request to the ESPEN executive.

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