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PEG Tube Placement OK in Centenarian Patients

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Early feeding safe after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis presented at the ACG Annual Scientific ...
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Enteral Nutrition via Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy and Nutritional Status of Patients: Five-Year Prospective Study

Within a 5-year period, 92 PEG tube were inserted into 85 patients (22 female, 63 male). Excluding one patient, a 5-year-old girl, their ages ranged from 20 to 87 years with a mean age of 55.94 ± ...
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Comparison of patient performance between PEG/no PEG placement in head and neck cancer patients during chemoradiotherapy treatment.

Long-term disease control of ≥2 years achieved with cabozantinib in subjects with metastatic medullary thyroid carcinoma on a phase I study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual ...
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Analysis of nationwide trends and outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement in hospitalized cancer patients over a 13 year period.

Romiplostim management of chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia. Phase III open label randomized controlled trial comparing intravenous iron sucrose to oral ferrous sulphate (without erythropoiesis ...
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Complications of and Controversies Associated With Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy: Report of a Case and Literature Review

Thus, early enteral feeding may be beneficial in dysphagic stroke patients, but the evidence is not definitive. Early feeding can be accomplished with a nasogastric tube and a change to a PEG ...