Nutrient intake and contribution of home enteral nutrition to meeting nutritional requirements after oesophagectomy and total gastrectomy.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

This study evaluated nutrition after oesophago-gastric resection and the influence of home jejunostomy feeding in the six months after surgery.

Subjects/methods

Data on nutritional intake and physiologic measures were collected as part of a randomised trial with measurements taken before and up to six months after surgery.

Results

A total of 41 participants (32 oesophagectomy, 9 total gastrectomy) received home jejunostomy feeding (n=18) or usual care without feeding (n=23). At hospital discharge, oral intakes were adequate for energy and protein in 9% and 6%, respectively. By three and six months, these values had increased to 61% and 55%, 94% and 77% respectively. Six participants (26%) who received usual care required rescue feeding. Six weeks

SUBMITTER: Baker ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5590712 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature