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Outpatient use of the feeding jejunostomy catheter

Gynecologic Oncology, 1984
Selected cancer patients can benefit from home use of the jejunostomy catheter. The indications for this technique include chronic inability to meet basal fluid and caloric needs and risk of intestinal obstruction. This report describes the extended use of the jejunostomy catheter in 20 women with gynecologic malignancies and discusses the benefits and
O M, Soriero, S C, Ballon
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Laparoscopic feeding jejunostomy in esophagogastric cancer

Surgical Endoscopy, 2007
Patients with esophagogastric malignancies often require nutritional supplementation in the perioperative period, especially in the setting where neoadjuvant therapy may delay tumor resection. A simple technique is described here that can be performed at the time of staging laparoscopy and that has not been described before.Forty-three patients treated
A D, Jenkinson, J, Lim, N, Agrawal, D, Menzies   +3 more
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Aspirin Absorption from a Feeding Jejunostomy

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1980
ABSTRACT In a 67‐year‐old man who had a feeding jejunostomy because of dysphagia paralytica, the absorption of aspirin was measured in terms of serum salicylate concentration. A 975‐mg dose of aspirin was given as a slurry in water directly into the feeding tube.
E B, Nelson, J R, Levitt
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Ascending contamination of a jejunostomy feeding reservoir

Clinical Nutrition, 1985
In general bacterial contamination of enteral feeding solutions is considered to be exogenous in origin. However, during feeding through catheter jejunostomy another source of contamination seems possible. We describe a patient in whom bacterial contamination of the feeding solution given through a catheter jejunostomy occurred frequently ...
L, Van Alsenoy, I, De Leeuw, C, Delvigne, M, Van De Woude   +3 more
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COMPLICATIONS OF SURGICAL FEEDING JEJUNOSTOMIES IN TRAUMA PATIENTS

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1999
To determine the complication rate of feeding jejunostomy (FJ) performed as an adjunct to trauma celiotomy.Retrospective analysis of 222 patients from January of 1988 to May of 1998.Thirty-seven total FJ-related complications occurred in 22 patients (10%).
J H, Holmes, S I, Brundage, P, Yuen, R A, Hall, R V, Maier, G J, Jurkovich   +5 more
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Failure of a feeding jejunostomy.

Medicine, science, and the law, 1993
A healthy 16-year-old female pedestrian was hit by a motor vehicle. She sustained multiple injuries including severe head injury. She was admitted to hospital unconscious. There was no recovery of neurological function. After a short period of time, a jejunostomy was performed for feeding purposes.
K, Opeskin, K A, Lee
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Feeding Jejunostomy in Patients With Neurologic Disorders

Archives of Surgery, 1981
A retrospective study of 54 patients who underwent feeding jejunostomy because of dysphagia on a neurologic basis was performed to determine risk factors affecting a postoperative mortality of 33% and six-month mortality of 67%. Advanced patient age, depressed preoperative level of consciousness, general anesthesia, and the technique of Witzel's ...
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Use of the polyethylene catheter for jejunostomy feeding

The American Journal of Surgery, 1951
Abstract 1. 1. Jejunostomy feeding is infrequently employed because of the inconvenience and discomfort associated with the use of rubber tubing. 2. 2. A review of the literature has revealed no cases of polyethylene tubing used for this purpose. 3. 3.
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Routine use of feeding jejunostomy in pancreaticoduodenectomy: A metaanalysis

Surgical Practice, 2021
Bhavin Vasavada
exaly  

Jejunostomy for Feeding or Decompression

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1969
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