Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG): cui bono?
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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding.
Cite this as: BMJ 2010;340:c2414 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c2414 Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding, introduced into clinical practice in 1980, is now established as an effective way of providing enteral feeding to patients who have functionally normal gastrointestinal tracts but who cannot meet their nutritional needs because of inadequate oral intake. It is the preferred method of feedi...
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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy was done for feeding purposes in 3 patients with inoperable carcinoma of oesophagus and oropharynx. Procedure was tolerated well by all with no complications. All the patients were able to maintain their weight till death. The procedure is safe and cost effective for enteral feeding in patients with dysphagia (JPMA 38: 179, 1988).
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Background and Objective: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is the technique of choice for providing enteral access to patients who require long-term enteral nutrition. This study was performed to evaluate the outcomes and complications of PEG. Materials and Methods: In this semi-experimental study, 77 patients (45 men, 32 women; age mean: 58.9±19.7 years, Min: 14 years, Max: 89 Years)...
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Background and Aim: Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) provides for enteral nutrition in children with feeding problems. PEG, however, is not without complications. The present study has the aim to identify the incidence of major and minor complications after PEG placement. Methods: All patients receiving a PEG in the period 2008-2011 were reviewed. In a 4 years period we positioned 41 P...
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(PEG) is a good example of surgical treatments that adopt a “minimal access therapeutic approach”. However, the procedure, which is also referred to as the nonsurgical technique, carries a false sense of safety, as it is associated with significant morbidity [1–5]. In the English literature, a wide range of reports regarding PEG insertion state that postprocedural pneumoperitoneum is a common a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontline Gastroenterology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2041-4137,2041-4145
DOI: 10.1136/flgastro-2014-100521