Treatment of intestinal fistulas. Interest of intravenous hyperalimentation.

The authors present a report of four personal cases of intestinal fistulas, treated by parenteral hyperalimentation. They describe the technique of parenteral hyperalimentation used. There was one complication due to yeast septicemia from a sub-clavian catheter used for parenteral nutrition. Treatment of the yeast septicemia by amphotericine B was successful. (Acta anaesth. belg., 1976, 27, 35-44).