Tube feeding involves giving a liquid dietary formula through a flexible tube inserted into the digestive tract. It is used when patients can’t get enough nutrition by eating. Feeding tubes can be ...

Enteral feeding, also called tube feeding, is a method of feeding that provides nutrition and calories when a person can’t chew or swallow. This generally involves providing nutrition through a tube ...

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October 12, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — Diverting jejunostomy is an effective surgical procedure in the treatment of severe necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in neonates, according to research ...

In oncological patients with upper gastrointestinal tract tumours, dysphagia and cachexy necessitate gastrostomy or jejunostomy as the only options of enteral access for long-term feeding. In this ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Gastro-Jejunostomy under Local Anesthesia in the Two-Stage Operation in Gastric Surgery ...

Why this is important:- People who have had surgery for oesophago-gastric cancer have nutritional difficulties as a result of problems eating, ongoing symptoms, and side-effects related to the surgery ...