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A comparison of postoperative early enteral nutrition with delayed enteral nutrition in patients with esophageal cancer.
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- Early enteral nutrition (within 48 hours) versus delayed enteral nutrition (after 48 hours) with or without supplemental parenteral nutrition in critically ill adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- The Effect of Enteral Tube Feeding on Patients' Health-Related Quality of Life: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- Effects of enhanced recovery after surgery nursing combined with early enteral nutrition on Gastrointestinal function recovery after radical gastrectomy.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Trial
- Effect of early enteral nutrition on laparoscopic common bile duct exploration with enhanced recovery after surgery protocols.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Trial
- Program of gastrointestinal rehabilitation and early postoperative enteral nutrition: a prospective study.Updates in surgery · 2018Trial
- Optimizing nutritional support in upper gastrointestinal surgery: A comprehensive review of feeding jejunostomy techniques and outcomes.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2025Review
- Machine learning-based prediction models affecting the recovery of postoperative bowel function for patients undergoing colorectal surgeries.BMC surgery · 2024Article
- Assessment of safety during hospitalization for patients undergoing Surgery after neoadjuvant therapy for moderately advanced Esophageal cancer.BMC surgery · 2023Article
- Nutritional status efficacy of early nutritional support in gastrointestinal care: A systematic review and meta-analysis.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2023Article
- Enteral nutrition provides favorable postoperative outcomes for patients with pseudomyxoma peritonei: a retrospective study.Gland surgery · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation Combined with Enteral Nutrition in the Treatment of Patients with Combined Respiratory Failure after Lung Cancer Surgery and Its Effect on Blood Gas Indexes.Emergency medicine international · 2022Article
- A Two-Stage Bedside Intubation Method to Improve Success Rate of Post-pyloric Placement of Spiral Nasoenteric Tubes in Critically Ill Patients: A Multi-Center, Prospective Study.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Supplemental enteral tube feeding nutrition after hospital discharge of esophageal cancer patients who have undergone esophagectomy.Esophagus : official journal of the Japan Esophageal Society · 2021Article
- Value of nutrition support therapy in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies: a narrative review and health economic analysis of impact on clinical outcomes in the United States.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2021Review
- Early Enteral Nutrition Could Reduce Risk of Recurrent Leakage After Definitive Resection of Anastomotic Leakage After Colorectal Cancer Surgery.World journal of surgery · 2021Article
- Prognostic nutritional index (PNI), independent of frailty is associated with six-month postoperative mortality.Journal of geriatric oncology · 2020Article
- Development and Validation of a Logic Model for Utilization of Nutrition Support among Patients with Cancer.BioMed research international · 2020Article
- Optimal timing and route of nutritional support after esophagectomy: A review of the literature.World journal of gastroenterology · 2019Review
- Does perioperative administration of glutamine, fiber and oligosaccharide (GFO) improve perioperative immune conditions and reduce early postoperative surgical stress after esophagectomy?Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Analysis of risk factors for pulmonary infection in patients with minimally invasive esophagectomy.Oncology letters · 2019Article
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Abstract
We examined esophageal cancer patients who received enteral nutrition (EN) to evaluate the validity of early EN compared to delayed EN, and to determine the appropriate time to start EN. A total of 208 esophagectomy patients who received EN postoperatively were divided into three groups (Group 1, 2 and 3) based on whether they received EN within 48 h, 48 h-72 h or more than 72 h, respectively. The postoperative complications, length of hospital stay (LOH), days for first fecal passage, cost of hospitalization, and the difference in serum albumin values between pre-operation and post-operation were all recorded. The statistical analyses were performed using the t-test, the Mann-Whitney U test and the chi square test. Statistical significance was defined as p < 0.05. Group 1 had the lowest thoracic drainage volume, the earliest first fecal passage, and the lowest LOH and hospitalization expenses of the three groups. The incidence of pneumonia was by far the highest in Group 3 (p = 0.019). Finally, all the postoperative outcomes of nutritional conditions were the worst by a significant margin in Group 3. It is therefore safe and valid to start early enteral nutrition within 48 h for postoperative esophageal cancer patients.
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