INTRODUCTION The incidence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients is reported to be high. In particular, patients with esophageal cancer are prone to malnutrition, due to preoperative digestive system dysfunctions and short-term non-oral feeding postoperatively. Selection of an appropriate method for feeding in the postoperative period is important in these patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS I...

INTRODUCTION Whether parenteral nutrition benefits growth of very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm infants in the setting of rapid enteral feeding advancement is unclear. Our aim was to examine this issue using data from Japan, where enteral feeding typically advances at a rapid rate. METHODS We studied 4005 hospitalized VLBW, very preterm (23-32 weeks' gestation) infants who reached full ente...

HYPOTHESIS Immediate enteral feeding following major abdominal surgery reduces postoperative complications and mortality when compared with parenteral nutrition. DESIGN A prospective multicenter randomized trial. SETTING A university hospital department of digestive surgery. PATIENTS AND INTERVENTIONS Two hundred forty-one malnourished patients undergoing major elective abdominal surgery ...

Nelson, R. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 16. Minimizing systemic infection during complete parenteral alimentation ofsmall infants. A regimen of parenteral alimentation for infants was designed to eliminate as many factors responsible for infection as possible. The most important features of the feeding regimen were as follows. (1) Infants were fed via indwelling silastic cathet...

Venous thrombosis and bacterial infections are common complications of parenteral nutrition. To test the hypothesis that infection facilitates activation of coagulation during parenteral nutrition, healthy subjects were intravenously injected with endotoxin (2 ng/kg) after they had received either 1 week of standard parenteral nutrition (n = 7) or normal enteral feeding (n = 8). Compared with e...

Fifty nine infants of birthweight less than 1500 g were allocated alternately to initial total parenteral nutrition or to transpyloric feeding. Mortality was similar between the two groups. Ten of the 29 infants in the transpyloric group failed to establish full enteral nutrition during the first week of life. No beneficial effects on growth were shown in infants receiving parenteral nutrition....