Comparisons of nutritional status and complications between patients with and without postoperative feeding jejunostomy tube in gastric cancer: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Feeding jejunostomy tube (FJT) enables early postoperative nutritional supply for gastric cancer patients undergoing surgery. However, the nutritional benefit of FJT may be accompanied by potential risk of increased complications, so both the nutritional improvement and the complication rates associated with FJT should be assessed.

Methods

From January 2009 to December 2014, 715 consecutive patients underwent gastric cancer resection at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital in China. The perioperative nutritional index and incidence of complications in patients with FJT placement were retrospectively compared to those in patients without FJT placement. Nutritional data including albumin, prealbumin, hemoglobin, and high sensitivity C-reactive protein, the neut

SUBMITTER: Li K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10007941 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature