Gastrostomy

01/01/2023 - "Nevertheless, stenting remains an important palliative option, especially for patients with a short life expectancy and a strong desire for oral intake, because stenting can facilitate a more rapid improvement in dysphagia than radiotherapy or gastrostomy. "
05/30/1992 - "Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube feeding is a safe and effective method of providing long term enteral nutrition to patients with neurological dysphagia and offers important advantages over nasogastric tube feeding."
11/01/2023 - "Four patients recovered with medical management only, two patients required gastrostomy insertions for feeding due to severe persistent dysphagia and one also required a Nissen's fundoplication to manage severe reflux. "
01/01/2022 - " multidisciplinary clinic advice is especially helpful for plwMND without dysphagia (swallowing problems) when considering early gastrostomy placement.Communication"
07/01/2019 - "The primary outcomes were the pooled rates of technical and clinical success, specifically improvement in dysphagia and independence from percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)-tube feeds. "

11/01/1995 - "It was concluded that percutaneous decompression gastrostomy can be successfully performed in patients with recurrent gynecologic malignancies, and offers significant relief of symptoms and improvement in quality of life."
04/01/2020 - "Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is the gold standard when enteral nutrition is expected for more than 3-4 weeks, especially in H&N tumour and oesophageal cancer patients undergoing definite chemoradiotherapy. "
10/24/2019 - "Overall, the access routes used were nasogastric tube (76.4%), and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (18.4%); 67.1% of the episodes ended by 30 June, 60.6% of patients died (47% of neurological patients), and 39.3% patients recovered function of the oral passage (85% of surgical/head and neck tumor). "
02/01/2002 - "The subset of patients with advanced T4 pyriform sinus cancers (in whom cure with chemoradiation would likely result in tracheostomy and/or gastrostomy dependence) may be better served with elective surgery and postoperative irradiation. "
01/01/2022 - "When decompression for advanced malignancy is technically not feasible with a gastrostomy tube, the PTEG is a viable, safe option for palliation. "

07/01/2000 - "The presence of a gastrostomy does not appear to predispose patients to the development of this infection, and successful therapy most often consists of a combination of antifungal medication and dialysis catheter removal. "
03/01/2016 - "Antibacterial gauzes are effective in preventing infections after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy placement: a retrospective analysis."
01/01/2018 - "Conclusions: PRG is relatively safe and effective for gastrostomy placement in older patients, and this technique may be of value in patients with oral infections and those receiving anti-thrombotic therapy."
01/01/2021 - "After gastrostomy chest infections improved in 80% and nutritional status (e.g., Body Mass Index) in 84% of patients. "
12/01/2011 - "After 3 weeks, the signs of infection fully improved, and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy was performed again. "

06/01/2021 - "Through enteral feeds administered through the successfully placed gastrostomy tube, the patient showed steady improvement in weight gain over the course of several months before approval for listing by the lung transplant selection committee. "
08/01/2014 - "This child was surgically treated with anterior gastropexy and jejunal alimentation through gastrostomy, and the symptoms were relieved with good weight gain. "
06/01/1986 - "Student's unpaired t-test analysis of the data reveals significantly greater weight gain in the gastrostomy animals (2.5% weight gain/d +/- 0.3% v 1.5% +/- 0.3%, P less than 0.05). "
10/01/2011 - "Because infants undergoing a Norwood operation have poor interstage weight gain, we hypothesized that preemptive gastrostomy tube (GT) placement would result in earlier discharge, improved growth, and higher survival to stage 2. Records of 74 neonates who underwent a Norwood operation were reviewed until stage 2 palliation. "
11/01/2022 - "His weight gain and growth improved with adequate nutrition, and his gastrostomy tube was removed at 2 years of age. "

01/01/2019 - "Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding is beneficial in patients with advanced dementia."
01/01/2009 - "Percutaneous gastrostomy feeding tube (PG) may be beneficial in some patients, in others such as advanced dementia or rapidly progressive diseases its value is being questioned. "
06/01/2008 - "But ten years after the publication of the first large study demonstrating the lack of efficacy of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes in prolonging life for patients with advanced dementia, and seven years after the appearance of two articles in major medical journals arguing that tube feeding should no longer be the standard of care for individuals with advanced dementia, gastrostomy tubes remain commonplace in this population. "
09/01/2014 - "To explore factors at the family caregiver and nursing home administrative levels that may affect participation in a clinical trial to determine the efficacy of hand feeding vs. percutaneous gastrostomy tube feeding in persons with late-stage dementia. "
05/01/2014 - "Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes are placed in elderly adults in Japan with advanced dementia regardless of expectation of improvement in quality of life."