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Peripheral parenteral nutrition is an alternative to total parenteral nutrition, and is a complement to enteral nutrition and the oral route. Progress in catheter design and materials, infusion techniques and an improved knowledge of the optimal nutriments has made peripheral parenteral nutrition a safe, efficient and useful method to treat patients over certain periods of time.

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Parenteral lipid emulsions modify fatty acid profiles in plasma phospholipids. MCT/LCT emulsions produce in phospholipids a fatty-acid profile that is closer to normality than that achieved with LCT emulsions. These changes in phospholipid fatty acids are suggestive of an inhibition of A-5-desaturase in patients who received LCT emulsions.

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