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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Li, Huiwen
• Gong, Sitang
• Yang, Min
• Chen, Peiyu
• Xu, Zhaohui
• Liang, Cuiping
• Fang, Tiefu
• Ren, Lu
• Liu, Liying
• Li, Jiexia
• Geng, Lanlan

Titel

Efficacy of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in pediatric patients

Ist Teil von

• Zhonghua er ke za zhi, 2016-02, Vol.54 (2), p.145

Ort / Verlag

China

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To analyze the efficacy of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) in pediatric patients. From October 2011 to October 2014, children in the gastrointestinal ward of Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center received PEG or jejunal tube PEG(JET-PEG). The success rate, operation time were recorded. The changes of their weight, enteral nutrition calories and the incidence of pneumonia before and after the first 6 months of operation were compared. Follow-up was conducted until October 2014, the recent and long term complications, the length of indwelling time, the replacement or removal of the tube were recorded, the patients swallowing function or the primary disease's outcomes were observed. Of the 13 cases, 10 were male, 3 were female, their average age was 2 years (range 1.8 months-9 years). We performed PEG for 12 of the patients who had congenital craniofacial problems that led to feeding difficulties or recurrent cough and pneumonia (6/12), or neurological disorders (6/12) with inability to swallow