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Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Mortality and complications.

Neurología, 2019
INTRODUCTION Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes severe dysphagia and weight loss. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is currently the technique of choice for the enteral nutrition of these patients ...
J. C. Perseguer, A. M. Seiz, M. R. Portales, J. Hernández, J. M. Mora Pardina, J. García-Samaniego   +5 more
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Pneumonia and mortality after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion [PDF]

, 2013
Background/aims: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding provides enteral nutrition to patients with neurological dysphagia. Thirty-day mortality rates of 4-26% have been reported, with pneumonia being the common cause post-percutaneous endoscopic ...
Azzopardi, Neville, Neville AZZOPARDI, Ellul, Pierre, Pierre ELLUL   +3 more
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Gastrotomia percutânea endoscópica em crianças: complicações associadas [PDF]

, 2009
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Curso de Medicina.
Witeck, Camila da Rosa
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Neurological, Neurodevelopmental and Treatment Outcomes in Patients With Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Deficiency

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The aim of this study was to characterize intellectual and motor function, neurological features including epilepsy, treatment response, and adaptive behavior in patients with pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDCD) in Sweden.
Antri Savvidou, Colin Reilly, Kalliopi Sofou, Sofia Ygberg, Erik A. Eklund, Karin Naess, Niklas Darin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endoscopic percutaneous suturing (eFe technique) in massive bleeding due to percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

, 2019
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has so many complications, such as haemorrhage and gastrocutaneous fitula, and can be treated with several common procedures. When the common procedures are not successful, we must perform new procedures, such as
Dere, Özcan, Belli, Ahmet Korkut, Subaşı, Sercan, Dönmez, Cem, Dönmez, Ezgi   +4 more
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Switching disease‐modifying therapies in patients with spinal muscular atrophy: A systematic review on effectiveness outcomes

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
With multiple disease‐modifying therapies now available, treatment switching has become an important clinical consideration in the management of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). While some switches are prompted by suboptimal clinical response, more commonly they are driven by treatment burden, convenience, or adverse events.
Andrej Belančić, Elvira Meni Maria Gkrinia, Patrick Eustaquio, Andrea Katrin Faour, Dinko Vitezić   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A RARE COMPLICATION IN A CASE OF PERSISTENT DIARRHEA: PEG CATHETER MIGRATION

Turkish Medical Student Journal
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy is a common procedure performed for enteral feeding for patients who experience difficulty swallowing. Although generally safe, complications like infection, hemorrhage, gastrointestinal perforation, peritonitis ...
İdil Çetin, Şükran Yıldız Düzenli, Mustafa Düzenli, Doğan Albayrak   +3 more
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Prophylactic percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in patients with head and neck cancer: Influence on nutritional status, utilisation rate and complications

International journal of clinical practice, 2019
Patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) are at high risk for malnutrition because of tumour localisation and therapy. Prophylactic percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement is common practice to prevent malnutrition.
J. Hausmann, A. Kubesch, Jens Müller von der Grün, C. Goettlich, N. Filmann, Andrea Oliver Tal, J. Vermehren, M. Friedrich-Rust, A. Wächtershäuser, J. Bojunga, I. Blumenstein   +10 more
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Epidemiology of Intensive Nutritional Interventions and Restraints in Hospitalizations for Anorexia Nervosa: Annual National Trends of the United States

International Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Despite the clinical relevance of enteral and parenteral tube feeding and restraint use in anorexia nervosa (AN), national‐level data on their use have remained limited, particularly for total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG).
Hiroyasu Ino, Nancy S. Jecker, Yoshiyuki Takimoto, Eisuke Nakazawa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1989
Sixty-five patients who had endoscopic placement of a feeding tube between April 1984 and November 1987, were reviewed. Mean follow-up was 245 days (range one to 1391 days).
Ronald J. Bridges, Lloyd R. Sutherland, Sydney Bass, Lorne M. Price   +3 more
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