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Article: Vitamin Supplements Insufficient for Children with Biliary Atresia.(Report)
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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Commercially available multivitamin preparations commonly given to infants with biliary atresia to prevent fat soluble vitamin deficiencies are ineffective, according to researchers presenting at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. "This study examined a multivitamin preparation, which if often used by clinicians due to the convenience and perception that it is effective, however, there are alternatives, such as giving multiple prescriptions of individual vitamins and/or intramuscular injections," said Benjamin Shneider, MD, principal investigator for this study (see also Biliary Atresia).
Although biliary atresia ...
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