[Short bowel syndrome in children: etiology and basic approaches to treatment].

The paper considers the main causes and clinical manifestations of the short bowel syndrome in children, defines the clinical and physiological features of the disease in children. The world experience in managing patients with short bowel syndrome is summed up. Indications for total parenteral or parenteral-and-enteral feeding in relation to the site of intestinal resection are analyzed. Artificial therapeutic feeding is shown to play the leading role in the complex of rehabilitation of children with short bowel syndrome.