Gastrostomy Tube
Resolution of HIV-Associated Nephrotic Syndrome With Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Delivered by Gastrostomy Tube
... cells/mL and her plasma HIV-1 RNA was .than 750 000 copies/ mL. A renal ultrasound revealed bilateral hyperechoic cortex with poor corticomedullary differentiation consistent with HIV nephrothy. Her nephrotic syndrome ...
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Gastrostomy Tube Placement in Aspirating Patients
... with gastrostomy tube placement when absolutely ...before tube placement, we may be able to better disseminate some of the practices currently adopted at our hospital and potentially promote a more ...
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<p>Prospective implementation of algorithmic patient selection for gastrostomy tube placement consultations: a pre- and post-intervention analysis</p>
... Gastrostomy tube (GT) placement, including percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), is a common practice in patients requiring enteral nutrition due to a variety of conditions that interfere with ...
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Primary placement technique of jejunostomy using the entristar™ skin-level gastrostomy tube in patients with esophageal cancer
... jejunostomy tube, and partial obstruction of the jejunal ...jejunostomy tube (SLJT) insertion using a skin-level gastrostomy tube (Entristar ™ ; Tyco Healthcare, Mansfield, Mass) for patients ...
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A feasibility study incorporating a pilot randomised controlled trial of oral feeding plus pre-treatment gastrostomy tube versus oral feeding plus as-needed nasogastric tube feeding in patients undergoing chemoradiation for head and neck cancer (TUBE trial): study protocol
... We will initially estimate the expected value of perfect information and expected value of removing uncertainty surrounding specific parameters or groups of parameters to identify where further research should focus on ...
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The role of gastrostomy tube placement in advanced dementia with dysphagia: a critical review
... There is much controversy regarding the use and timing of enteral feeding support in patients with dysphagia and aspiration risk. The decision process becomes far more complex in those patients with advanced dementia, ...
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<p>Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Placement in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer Treated with Radiotherapy</p>
... PEG tube placement showed that obese patients had a median weight loss of ...PEG tube within 26 ...PEG tube placement after a median of 15 ...PEG tube placement when there was a signi fi cant ...
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Gastrostomy Tube Supplementation for HIV-infected Children
... Weight, height, weight-for-height, TSF, and AMC were collected at four points: at the time closest to 6 months before enteral supplementation, at initiation of nasogas- tric tube feeding[r] ...
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Gastrostomy Tube Insertion for Improvement of Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Pediatric Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus
... tomy tube (GT) for the improvement of adherence to HAART in HIV-infected children, and 2) the factors that may result in improved viral suppression after GT place- ...
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Risk Factors for Urolithiasis in Gastrostomy Tube Fed Children: A Case-Control Study
... Our study has several important limi- tations. We relied upon billing data to identify our patient population, and may have missed potential cases or controls if appropriate billing codes were not applied. Also, GTF ...
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“Take Out This Thing”: A Teen’s Decision About Removal of a Gastrostomy Tube
... After 4 months of the G-T removal, he progressively had swallowing difficulties. Every time he tried certain foods, he had mild bleeding episodes because of the tumor invasion on his mouth. One day, he had a fear of ...
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Decision-Making Around Gastrostomy-Feeding in Children With Neurologic Disabilities
... vide additional guidance for communi- cation about this specific intervention in the context of parental decision- makers of neurologically impaired children. Clinicians should acknowl- edge to families that parents often ...
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Long-term swallow function after chemoradiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer: The influence of a prophylactic gastrostomy or reactive nasogastric tube
... prophylactic tube placement prior to treatment, and ii) reactive tube placement if and when ...A gastrostomy tube is usually preferred for the former approach and a nasogastric (NG) ...
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Serotonin reuptake inhibitors and post-gastrostomy bleeding: reevaluating the link
... We included all adult patients who underwent endoscopic placement of gastrostomy tube by gastroenterologists at our hospital between July 2006 and June 2014. All the procedures involved the placement of a ...
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Mediastinitis complicating a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: a case report
... the gastrostomy tube to be dislocated with its tip in the subcutaneous adipose ...the gastrostomy tube was accidentally dislodged, during the everyday nursing care, some food started to leak ...
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Growth in Children With Cerebral Palsy Fed Via Gastrostomy
... There is a distinct complication and mortality rate and occasional lack of improvement in nutri- tional status following gastrostomy tube placement in children severely affected by cereb[r] ...
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Paediatric Surgical Outcomes Across Ontario
... However this data does suggest that that the rate of recurrent fistula and the need for reoperation in Canada is low. The Canadian pediatric surgical community is very small and this in its self provides a number of ...
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Horror and Disgust: gastrostomy feeding and identity transformation
... Parental accounts also reflected a concern about the potential of feeding technologies and their impact on physical contact: for example, whether the gastrostomy (constructed as a ‘foreign object’) might deter ...
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Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy
... for gastrostomy tube using trans-illumination along with finger pressure will further reduce the chances of such ...PEG tube in the oesopha- gus (because of breakage of suture used for pull- ing the ...
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Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of early prophylactic feeding via gastrostomy versus standard care in high risk patients with head and neck cancer
... baseline, tube feeding was commenced earlier (day 2) compared to when there was no dysphagia at baseline (day ...ing tube feeding immediately following prophylactic placement ...the gastrostomy ...
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