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  • Perkutana endoskopska gastrostomija - šestletne izkušnje = Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy - six-year experiences
    Vujasinović, Miroslav ...
    Background: Providing adequate nutrition is the basic treatment of various diseases. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy is the method of choice for long-term tube feeding in patients with swallowing ... disorders due to neurologicdisease, cancer or head and neck injuries. Methods: Retrospective review of medical documentation of the patients who underwent PEG between 1999and 2004 was performed. Demographic characteristics of patients, indications, and complications of PEG were analysed. Results: During the six-year period, 104 PEG tubes were placed. There were 68 (65%) female and 36 (35%) male patients, their mean age being 77 years. The majority of patients (n = 83, 79%) had neurological disease: they were followed by cancer patients (n = 16, 16%) and head and neck injuries (3%). In two cases PEG was impossible: in one because of respiratory complications and in the second because illumination through the anterior gastric wall was insufficient. Two patients had major complications when buried bumper syndrome occured. Consclusion: Our 6-year experiences have proven that PEG is an excellent method for providing long-term enteral nutrition in patients with dysphagia. It is obviously a very simple and effective method with low risk.
    Source: Gastroenterolog : revija Slovenskega združenja za gastroenterologijo in hepatologijo = journal of Slovenian Association for Gastroenterology and Hepatology. - ISSN 1408-2756 (Letn. 9, št. 21, 2005, str. 5-8)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2005
    Language - slovenian
    COBISS.SI-ID - 20297433

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