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TPN

  1. total parenteral nutrition.



TPN

noun

  1. biochem triphosphopyridine nucleotide a former name for NADP

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The pharmaceutical firm described the incident as "wholly exceptional", noting it had produced TPN since 2008 and helped many thousands of vulnerable babies to survive.

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Prosecutors allege his death resulted from him being fed the contaminated TPN, although ITH Pharma denies his death was caused by the administration of the feed.

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Some people who rely on TPN like Loretta will chew food and spit it out, but that's never appealed to her.

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Echoing those comments, retired physician and University of Illinois College of Medicine professor Barry A. Mizock ranked TPN alongside more “glamorous” achievements such as open-heart surgery.

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"I went ten days without a TPN delivery," she told BBC Eye on Wales.

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