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[Evaluation of the use of parenteral nutrition in chronic and severe radiation enterocolitis].

Abstract
The effects of parenteral nutrition in the treatment of patients with severe chronic radiation enterocolitis is not known. We retrospectively studied 19 adult patients who received parenteral nutrition during 8.6 +/- 2.4 months (mean +/- SEM), including 6 cases in our home-parenteral nutrition-program. Parenteral nutrition was started 49 +/- 12 months after radiation therapy; follow-up after parenteral nutrition was 22 +/- 7 months. Indication for parenteral nutrition was malnutrition (weight = 73 +/- 2 p. 100 of ideal body weight, serum albumin level = 27 +/- 1 g/l) due to multifocal gastrointestinal radiation injuries with stenoses (n = 12), fistulae (n = 3) and short bowel syndrome (n = 4). Parenteral nutrition was given during the peri-operative period in 15 patients. Neither fistulae nor stenoses resolved with parenteral nutrition alone (n = 7) or in association with steroids (n = 5). There was a 57 p. 100 mortality rate (11 patients): 10 p. 100 were postoperative (2 of the 3 patients with fistulae), 21 p. 100, due to radiation complications and 26 p. 100, due to progression of cancer. In those patients with severe and multifocal chronic radiation enteropathy, parenteral nutrition did not influence the lesions in the digestive tract. Nutritional support could, however, be considered as an useful adjunct with a low perioperative mortality rate. In the 14 patients without superimposed unresponsive cancer, parenteral nutrition followed by curative abdominal surgery seemed to be associated with the best prognosis and in 7 of the 8 survivors, parenteral nutrition has been discontinued without reappearance of clinical malnutrition.
AuthorsC Bories, B Messing, J Lacourt, J J Bernier
JournalGastroenterologie clinique et biologique (Gastroenterol Clin Biol) Vol. 11 Issue 2 Pg. 142-7 (Feb 1987) ISSN: 0399-8320 [Print] France
Vernacular TitleEvaluation de l'utilisation de la nutrition parentérale au cours desentérocolites radiques chroniques et sévères.
PMID3106127 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)
Topics
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Enterocolitis (etiology, therapy)
  • Evaluation Studies as Topic
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Parenteral Nutrition, Total
  • Radiation Injuries (therapy)
  • Retrospective Studies

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