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Effectiveness of postoperative elemental diet (Elental®) in elderly patients after gastrectomy

BACKGROUND: We aimed to investigate the efficacy of postoperative early intervention with an elemental diet to reduce weight loss and enhance recovery after gastrectomy. Nutritional status and gastrointestinal immune function tend to worsen, and postoperative weight loss is inevitable in these patie...

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Autores principales: Ohkura, Yu, Haruta, Shusuke, Tanaka, Tsuyoshi, Ueno, Masaki, Udagawa, Harushi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5070231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27756322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-016-1013-3