APOSTrophe Study (Parenteral Nutrition and Bone Trophicity) Impact of a Long-term Parenteral Nutrition on Bone Metabolism Measured by High Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computer Tomography (HR-pQCT) in Children and Young Adults

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Completed

Brief Summary: Recent progress in parenteral nutrition has contributed to improve vital prognosis and to reduce morbidity in patients with severe intestinal failure.

Currently, home parenteral nutrition is the only alternative to prolonged hospitalization for those patients. However, long-term parenteral nutrition can result in complications especially in bone, such as osteopenia or osteomalacia, then increasing the risk of fractures. Children are especially at risk because of bone growth and peak mineralization acquisition during puberty.

Moreover, frequency and risk factors of those complications are not well documented for children.

Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) is considered as the golden standard for bone mineralization measurement. In pediatrics, this technique has some limits such as the underestimation of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in short stature, the overestimation of the BMD in tall children, and the inability to distinguish cortical from trabecular bone or to evaluate the bone microarchitecture.

HR-pQCT, High Resolution peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography enables noninvasive assessment of bone microarchitecture (virtual bone biopsy) using a radiation similar to DXA. However this technique has never been validated in patients with long-term parenteral nutrition.

During the usual follow-up of the patients, HR-pQCT will be the only exam which will come in addition to the routine medical tests.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Patient who's receiving a long-term parenteral nutrition (over 2 years)
Patient between 9 and 30 years of age (children big enough to stay immobile for 3 min during the measurement)
Affiliation to the Social Security System
Informed consent form signed by parents and assent given by the patient

Exclusion Criteria

Patient presenting a bone disease which is not directly related to the parenteral nutrition.
Long-term corticotherapy ( over 6 months of therapy)
Inability to keep the leg or the arm immobile for 3 min
Patient not affiliated to a Social Security System
Patient participating to another interventional study
Pregnant patient or patient who desires pregnancy
All situation that the physician estimated that is not compatible with the study

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Children and young adults on long-term parenteral nutrition	HR-pQCT	long-term parenteral nutrition : 2 years

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Bone mineral density (BMD) and Bone mineral contain (BMC) height z-score at baseline	J0 (baseline)	BMD and BMC z scores (after correction for the height) will be measured by High Resolution peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (HR-pQCT) and compared to those measured in a control group (healthy subjects matched on age and sex). The same measurements will be also compared with those obtained by Dual-energy X Ray (DXA) but in this case each subject will be considered as his own control.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Trabecular and cortical BMD z score	J0 (baseline)	Trabecular and cortical BMD (height) z score measured by HR-pQCT for patients under parenteral nutrition at baseline will be compared to those of the control group
BMD and BMC height z score after 1 year of parenteral nutrition (PN)	1 year	BMD and BMC (height) z score measured by HR-pQCT and DXA after one year of PN will be compared, for each subject, to the measurements recorded at baseline

Locations (2): Hospices Civils de Lyon - Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant
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Bron, France
Hospices Civils de Lyon - Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse
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Lyon, France

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