Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in elderly patients.
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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in elderly patients.
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) was performed on 28 elderly patients (mean age 82 years) who were dysphagic and intolerant of naso-gastric feeding. Twenty-six patients were recovering from a stroke; the interval between the onset of stroke and PEG averaged 63 days. The procedure was successful and well tolerated by all patients. Nineteen (68%) still had a functioning PEG a median of 1...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.68.805.936