BACKGROUND Analyses of survival after fundoplication in childhood are often restricted to 30-day mortality, or to the neurologically impaired. The objective of this study was to report actuarial survival and variables associated with mortality for all children undergoing fundoplication. METHODS This was a prospective observational study of fundoplication surgery by one surgeon; the endpoint w...

Patients with head and neck cancer often have synchronous or metachronous esophageal squamous cell carcinoma or its precursor [1–4]. Multimodal therapy may be necessary for patients with multiple cancers. In patients with metachronous double cancers, the prior treatment of the first primary carcinoma often affects the treatment of the second cancer [5]. We herein report on a 51-year-old man wit...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement is often performed in patients with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt and it has been accepted as a safe procedure. The authors report a case of a 50-year-old male who developed acute exacerbation of the hydrocephalus immediately after the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement without any signs of shunt infection, which has not been rep...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is the gold standard for long-term enteral feeding. An adequate PEG candidate must have life expectancy longer than a few weeks. Patients surviving less than three weeks should have a nasogastric tube, and gastrostomy should be avoid. There are few studies looking to prognostic factors and fewer attempts of creating a predictor model for PEG patient's sur...

To compare the complications and mortality related to gastrostomy procedures performed using surgical and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy techniques, this review covered seven studies. Five of these were retrospective and two were randomized prospective studies. In total, 406 patients were involved, 232 of whom had undergone percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and 174 of whom had undergone ...

PURPOSE This study investigated the surgical gastrostomy and jejunostomy procedures in cancer patients who needed nutritional support and endoscopy was unattainable. METHODS Operation time and procedure, anesthesia and tube types, procedure-specific and surgical complications, and tube replacement at the follow up period were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS 109 patients (44 female, 65 mal...

BACKGROUND Patients presenting upper gastrointestinal obstruction, difficulty or inability in swallowing, may need nutritional support which can be obtained through gastrostomy and jejunostomy. AIM To describe the methods of gastrostomy and jejunostomy video-assisted, and to compare surgical approaches for video-assisted laparoscopy and laparotomy in patients with advanced cancer of the esoph...

Twenty-six hospitalized patients participated in a randomized crossover study to evaluate the effect of enteral feedings on ciprofloxacin absorption when given orally or via gastrostomy or jejunostomy tubes. Patients in the oral group received an intact 500-mg ciprofloxacin tablet alone or ciprofloxacin plus three oral doses of Sustacal (240 ml given 8 h before, with, and 4 h after ciprofloxaci...