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Early Enteral Feeding After Living Donor Liver Transplantation Prevents Infectious Complications: A Prospective Pilot Study.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Role of probiotic supplementation in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia among critically ill patients-a critical umbrella review of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Synbiotic Therapy Prevents Nosocomial Infection in Critically Ill Adult Patients: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Based on a Bayesian Framework.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in liver disease.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2019Guideline
- Living Donor Liver Transplantation Versus Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma and HCV Patients: An Initial Umbrella Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Development and validation of an LC-MS/MS method for highly concentrated tacrolimus and cyclosporine samples prepared from pharmaceutical products to assess drug loss from feeding tubes.Journal of mass spectrometry and advances in the clinical lab · 2024Article
- Application of a downward tract adherence method in the manual bedside placement of post-pyloric tubes in the intensive care unit.Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine · 2024Article
- Nutritional Risk of Candidates for Simultaneous Pancreatic-Kidney Transplantation-A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2023Review
- The Role of Pretransplant Infections in Pediatric Receiving LDLT in Indonesia: A 7-y Retrospective Study.Transplantation direct · 2023Article
- Nutritional Strategies to Manage Malnutrition and Sarcopenia following Liver Transplantation: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Risk factors and impact of early anastomotic biliary complications after liver transplantation: UK registry analysis.BJS open · 2021Article
- Poor preoperative enteral nutrition would be a risk factor for readmission due to infection after liver transplantation.Korean journal of transplantation · 2020Article
- Can the preoperative nutritional risk score be a predictor of the outcomes in critically ill patients of lung transplantation: a retrospective study.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Article
- Nutritional Management of a Liver Transplant Candidate.Journal of clinical and experimental hepatologyReview
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11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Infectious complications, including bacteria, virus, and fungus, often occur after liver transplantation and are the most frequent causes of in-hospital mortality. The current study prospectively analyze the effect of early enteral feeding in patients after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT)Between January 2013 and August 2013, 36 patients underwent LDLT. These patients were randomly assigned to receive enteral formula via nasointestinal feeding tubes [enteral feeding (EN) group, n = 17] or maintenance on intravenous fluid until oral diets were initiated (control group, n = 19). All patients completed the study.The pretransplant and perioperative characteristics of patients did not differ between the 2 groups. The incidence of bacterial infection was significantly lower in the EN group (29.4%) than in the control group (63.2%) (P = 0.043). In addition, the incidence of bile duct complications in the EN group was lower than in the control group (5.9% versus 31.6%, P = 0.041). Multivariate analysis showed that early enteral feeding was closely associated with bacterial infections (odds ratio, 0.178; P = 0.041). There was no statistically significant difference in nutritional status between the 2 groups. There were no cases of in-hospital mortality.Early enteral feeding after LDLT prevents posttransplant bacterial infection, suggesting the possibility of a reduction of in-hospital mortality as a result of decreased infectious complications.
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