نتایج جستجو برای: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
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A 73-year-old man was brought to the emergency department (ED) after his caregiver noticed his percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube was missing. It had been placed because of poor oral intake related to dementia. The caregiver stated that she last flushed the tube the day before and that the patient had been eating and drinking without difficulty. The patient was alert but disoriented...
BACKGROUND/AIMS Pneumoperitoneum is recognized as a benign and self-limiting finding after the insertion of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube, while complicated pneumoperitoneum is rarely reported. The aim of this study was to reappraise pneumoperitoneum following PEG. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 193 patients who underwent PEG from May 2008 to May 2014. All patients had...
hospital with dysphagia, which had re− sulted from multiple cerebral infarctions. A 20−Fr gastrostomy tube was inserted under endoscopic guidance. The proce− dure was uneventful, and antibiotics were not administered (l" Fig. 1). Al− though the skin around the fistula showed no clinical signs of abnormality, the patient’s abdominal pain increased. Computed tomography showed a low− density area ...
BACKGROUND Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an autoimmune subepidermal blistering disorder. It is rare in the general population but the prevalence was reported to be relatively high among the elderly in nursing homes. The aim of the study was to analyze the clinical characteristics and risk factor for BP in elderly patients with a long hospital stay. METHODS This was a retrospective survey with 36...
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...
BACKGROUND We report a patient who underwent percutaneous transesophageal gastrotubing (PTEG), that is, nonsurgical esophagostomy under ultrasonographic control, as an alternative to percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG). CASE DESCRIPTION The PTEG was placed for shunt protection from inadvertent infection in a 29-year-old male patient in whom a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt had previous...
INTRODUCTION Since the first classic descriptions of surgical gastrostomies for feeding by supra-umbilical medial incisions, patients were operated under general anesthesia, with prolonged time of surgery; these were patients in poor health status, undernourished due to inadequate intake or to neurological or tumor involvement, with prolonged hospitalization, both for the recovery of the intest...
reported the efficacy of gastropexy using a ‘Funada style’ kit [1, 2] . Our patient, with a misinserted gastrostomy tube, was successfully treated during replacement using the gastropexy technique. Dear Sir, Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a widely accepted method of providing long-term nutrition. However, as this procedure becomes more common for nutritional support, numerous comp...
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