Which of the following patients with small bowel resection is the LEAST likely to need long-term parenteral nutrition?

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Although most patients with significant bowel resection need parenteral nutrition initially to restore and maintain nutritional status, a patient with a jejunal resection adapts to enteral nutrition and oral diet more quickly after surgery because the ileum can adapt to perform the functions of the jejunum.Risk factors for dependence on long-term parenteral nutrition include elderly age, extensive removal of the ileum, loss of the ileocecal valve, and residual disease in the bowel (e.g., radiation enteritis).

Which of the Following Patients with Small Bowel Resection Is