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Feeding tube replacement: not always that simple!
Although surgical gastrostomy is not a technically troublesome surgery, the procedure may be accompanied by unfavorable outcomes. Most complications occur early in the post-operative period and include feeding tube dislodgment, stomal infection, peritonitis, and pneumonia. The authors report the cas...
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São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26484325 http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2014.050 |
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author | Soares da Silva, Mateus Quitembo Lederman, Alex Coelho da Rocha, Ricardo Frank Lourenção, Rodrigo Montenegro |
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description | Although surgical gastrostomy is not a technically troublesome surgery, the procedure may be accompanied by unfavorable outcomes. Most complications occur early in the post-operative period and include feeding tube dislodgment, stomal infection, peritonitis, and pneumonia. The authors report the case of an 83-year-old man who underwent a surgical gastrostomy because of a swallowing disorder after an ischemic stroke. Nine months after the procedure, the feeding tube dislodged and a new tube was inserted with a certain delay and with some difficulty, causing a false path and consequently an intrabdominal abscess after diet infusion. The outcome was fatal. The authors call attention for meticulous care with the insertion of feeding tubes and advise the performance of imaging control to assure its precise positioning. |
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spelling | pubmed-46081722015-10-19 Feeding tube replacement: not always that simple! Soares da Silva, Mateus Quitembo Lederman, Alex Coelho da Rocha, Ricardo Frank Lourenção, Rodrigo Montenegro Autops Case Rep Article / Clinical Case Reports Although surgical gastrostomy is not a technically troublesome surgery, the procedure may be accompanied by unfavorable outcomes. Most complications occur early in the post-operative period and include feeding tube dislodgment, stomal infection, peritonitis, and pneumonia. The authors report the case of an 83-year-old man who underwent a surgical gastrostomy because of a swallowing disorder after an ischemic stroke. Nine months after the procedure, the feeding tube dislodged and a new tube was inserted with a certain delay and with some difficulty, causing a false path and consequently an intrabdominal abscess after diet infusion. The outcome was fatal. The authors call attention for meticulous care with the insertion of feeding tubes and advise the performance of imaging control to assure its precise positioning. São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2015-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4608172/ /pubmed/26484325 http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2014.050 Text en Autopsy and Case Reports. ISSN 2236-1960. Copyright © 2014. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed of terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided article is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article / Clinical Case Reports Soares da Silva, Mateus Quitembo Lederman, Alex Coelho da Rocha, Ricardo Frank Lourenção, Rodrigo Montenegro Feeding tube replacement: not always that simple! |
title | Feeding tube replacement: not always that simple! |
title_full | Feeding tube replacement: not always that simple! |
title_fullStr | Feeding tube replacement: not always that simple! |
title_full_unstemmed | Feeding tube replacement: not always that simple! |
title_short | Feeding tube replacement: not always that simple! |
title_sort | feeding tube replacement: not always that simple! |
topic | Article / Clinical Case Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608172/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26484325 http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2014.050 |
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