<P> TPN may be the only feasible option for providing nutrition to patients who do not have a functioning gastrointestinal tract or who have disorders requiring complete bowel rest , including bowel obstruction , short bowel syndrome , gastroschisis , prolonged diarrhea regardless of its cause , high - output fistula , very severe Crohn 's disease or ulcerative colitis , and certain pediatric GI disorders including congenital GI anomalies and necrotizing enterocolitis . </P>
which condition would most likely require nutrition delivered through tpn
bowel obstruction short bowel syndrome gastroschisis prolonged diarrhea high - output fistula very severe Crohn 's disease ulcerative colitis certain pediatric GI disorders including congenital GI anomalies and necrotizing enterocolitis