Oct. 29, 2004 — Use of a double-lumen gastrojejunostomy tube (GJT) for gastric decompression and enteral feeding is safe and significantly reduces the incidence of gastroparesis, postoperative ...

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

The goal of this study was to better understand how to accurately measure the volume of gastric contents using ultrasound. This information would be useful in the case of patients arriving for urgent ...

Gastroparesis is a poorly defined chronic digestive disorder that is difficult to treat. This disorder is most rigorously defined as symptoms of, and evidence for, gastric retention in the absence of ...

From the Fifth (Harvard) Surgical Service, Boston City Hospital. Paine, J. R., and Wangensteen, O. H.: The necessity for constant suction to inlying nasal tubes for effectual decompression or drainage ...

Patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (APC) require early and frequent palliative interventions to achieve optimal quality of life for the duration of illness. Evidence-based supportive treatments ...

A 67-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with severe dysphagia, persistent vomiting, epigastric pain and abdominal distension. The results of a electrocardiograph were normal, and a ...