Title: [Early Enteral Nutrition for Gastric Cancer Patients with Extended Surgery].
Abstract: The effectiveness of multi-modal therapy for advanced gastric cancer were reported recently.These therapies are highly invasive, therefore the peri-operative management for regulation of general condition is important.We introduced early enteral nutrition for these cases aiming for improvement of post-operative course.We examined 18 cases with early enteral nutrition in 76 gastrectomised patient after pre-operative chemotherapy.In 15 of 18 patients, maximum dose of enteral nutrition was 960 kcal/day or more.Side effects of enteral nutrition, such as diarrhea or vomiting, abdominal pain, were observed in 11 cases.These symptoms ware controllable except 1 case with severe diarrhea.The weight loss during hospitalization was suppressed with early enteral nutrition.Early enteral nutrition was safe and essential peri-operative management for advanced gastric cancer patients received highly invasive multi-modal therapy.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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