Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) in children in Sweden.

This study represents a national survey of all children identified on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) in Sweden via all hospital pharmacy distributors. Indications for HPN from this sample were chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction (n = 5) and short bowel syndrome (n = 7). Linear growth was normal in 9 children and all school-age children attend classes at age-relevant levels. Families appear to have adapted well. There was one divorce among these families, and over the course of the HPN child's illness, younger siblings were born.