A preliminary study has been carried out on 10 patients suffering from cancer of the colon and rectum, all subjected to radical surgery. The clinical effectiveness of two alternative techniques of postoperative artificial nutrition, EPEN and TPN, are compared. The results confirm that enteral nutrition is technically applicable and well tolerated in the immediate post-operative period in these patients; it also presents a lower cost, it is more manageable and present a lower incidence of complications compared to TPN while offering similar metabolic and nutritional results.
[Early postoperative enteral nutrition and total parenteral nutrition. Technics compared in patients undergoing radical surgery for carcinoma of the large intestine. Preliminary report] / Grilli, Paola; DE ANTONI, Enrico; F., Carugno; L., Manes; P., Angelini; P., Massaro; D., Marchetti; N., Governatori; L., Corbellini; Monti, Massimo; Maturo, Alessandro. - In: MINERVA CHIRURGICA. - ISSN 0026-4733. - STAMPA. - 44:17(1989), pp. 1901-1903.
[Early postoperative enteral nutrition and total parenteral nutrition. Technics compared in patients undergoing radical surgery for carcinoma of the large intestine. Preliminary report].
GRILLI, Paola;DE ANTONI, Enrico;MONTI, Massimo;MATURO, Alessandro
1989
Abstract
A preliminary study has been carried out on 10 patients suffering from cancer of the colon and rectum, all subjected to radical surgery. The clinical effectiveness of two alternative techniques of postoperative artificial nutrition, EPEN and TPN, are compared. The results confirm that enteral nutrition is technically applicable and well tolerated in the immediate post-operative period in these patients; it also presents a lower cost, it is more manageable and present a lower incidence of complications compared to TPN while offering similar metabolic and nutritional results.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
