Since its introduction in 1980, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG ... Major complications resulting from PEG tube placement include peritonitis, hemorrhage, aspiration, peristomal wound ...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) provides a non-surgical alternative to long-term enteral feeding. The gastrostomy tube, however, may deteriorate, malfunction, or be accidentally expelled ...

An 81-year-old woman who underwent percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) a year before, after cerebral infarction was receiving home medical care. The first accidental PEG tube removal occurred ...

Conclusion PEG tube placement for enteral nutrition may be completed in patients with compound hiatus hernia and intrathoracic stomach. The authors suggest however that a long drainage access needle ...

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We report a study of enteral feeding by percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in 30 patients, the majority with a persistent vegetative state. All patients had previously been fed through a nasogastric ...

Abstract: There are two main enteral feeding strategies—namely nasogastric (NG) tube feeding and percutaneous ... and non-experimental studies comparing percutaneous gastrostomy—including percutaneous ...

Objective Current guidelines for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement focus largely on ... with refractory epilepsy who refused oral medication and in whom PEG tube placement was ...

What Is a G-Tube? Some kids have medical problems that make it hard for them to get enough nutrition by mouth. A gastrostomy tube (also called a G-tube) is a tube inserted through the belly that ...

This extended for 7 cm from the postcricoid oesophagus, and was staged as cT3N3M0. Following bougie dilation, a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube was inserted for nutritional support ...

What Is a G-Tube? Some kids have medical problems that make it hard for them to get enough nutrition by mouth. A gastrostomy tube (also called a G-tube) is a tube inserted through the belly that ...

Intervention: use of gastrostomy or jejunostomy tube to provide nutrition ... Eight studies specifically described percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy as the intervention. Weight gain resulted from ...