PS Oh, KZ Gill, LJ Lynch… - Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2011 - Elsevier A 24-year-old man suffered from a seizure disorder since birth. Due to his neurologic condition, a gastrostomy tube was placed using standard open technique during the second year of life for delivery of enteral nutrition and medications. The patient's gastrostomy had ... Related articles - All 5 versions
PJ Haslam - Interventional Radiology Procedures in Biopsy and …, 2011 - Springer Check for the abscence of hepatomegally, ascites, disseminated intra-abdominal • malignancy. A history of previous gastric/ulcer surgery is important; partial gastrectomy and gastro- • enterostomy can make the procedure more difficult. Full explanation of the ... Related articles - All 2 versions
JT Berger, S Hida, H Chen, D Friedel… - Archives of internal …, 2011 - Am Med Assoc After institutional review board approval, 39 persons who had provided consent for PEG tube placement for inpatients with stage 7 dementia according to the criteria from Reisberg et al 9 were enrolled, with an inclusion rate of 100% (Table). A questionnaire developed for this ... Related articles - All 3 versions
[PDF] from biomedcentral.comM Lefton-Greif, T Crawford… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2011 - biomedcentral.com Background: Ataxia Telangiectasia (AT) is a rare monogenetic neurodegenerative disease with pulmonary, nutritional, and dysphagic complications. Gastrostomy tube (GT) feedings are commonly recommended to manage these co-morbidities. In general, outcomes of GT placement in ... Related articles - View as HTML - All 7 versions
M Kurien, JS Leeds, HE Robson, J Grant… - Gut, 2011 - gut.bmj.com Introduction Gastrostomy insertion is widely accepted as the best means of providing medium and long term enteral nutrition. There is limited data on outcomes in patients referred for gastrostomy insertion that are either refused or do not survive until PEG insertion. Scoring systems ...