SynthesisFrontiers in nutrition2022
Effect of Enteral Immunonutrition in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Gastrointestinal Cancer: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of immunonutrition on surgery outcomes in cancer patients: evidence from an umbrella review on interventional and observational meta-analyses.BMC cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Prognostic role of C-reactive protein-albumin-lymphocyte (CALLY) index in gastrointestinal malignancies: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC gastroenterology · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic review of the management of perioperative tube-fed enteral nutrition in esophageal cancer patients.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of enteral immunonutrition on postoperative complications of colorectal cancer surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Immunonutrition for modifying inflammatory markers and improving clinical outcomes following traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of perioperative immunonutrition on postoperative outcomes in pancreaticoduodenectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC gastroenterology · 2024Pooled it
- The Effect of immunonutrition in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC cancer · 2023Pooled it
- Dietary inflammatory index and unfavorable dietary patterns associated with ischemic stroke in China.Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Trial
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- Postoperative Vaginal Cuff Healing After Minimally Invasive Surgery for Endometrial Cancer: The Role of Postoperative Immunonutrition.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Global Research Trends in Nutritional Management of Gastrointestinal Cancers: a 2004-2024 Bibliometric and knowledge-mapping Analysis.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2026Review
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- A rapid review of nutrition and exercise approaches to managing unintentional weight loss, muscle loss, and malnutrition in cancer.The oncologist · 2025Review
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- Immunonutrition in ERAS Protocol for Patients with Gynecologic Cancer: A Narrative Review of the Literature.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions in patients with colorectal cancer: an overview of systematic reviews.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2025Review
- Serum PM20D1 levels are associated with nutritional status and inflammatory factors in gastric cancer patients undergoing early enteral nutrition.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2025Article
- Prognostic utility of the global leadership initiative on malnutrition criteria in predicting outcomes after hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma: a multicenter, retrospective study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Immunonutrition in Operated-on Gastric Cancer Patients: An Update.Biomedicines · 2024Review
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Abstract
Background: The efficacy of enteral immunonutrition (EIN) in patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery remains debatable. This meta-analysis aimed to investigate the effectiveness of EIN administration in patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal cancer. Methods: From January 2000 to January 2022, PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science were thoroughly searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with EIN versus standard diet or no supplement in patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal cancer. Overall complications and infectious complications were the primary outcomes. The secondary results were non-infectious complications, mortality, length of hospital stay, and enteral nutrition-related complications. Results: Thirty-five studies reporting 3,692 patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal cancer (including gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, esophageal cancer, periampullary cancer, or pancreatic cancer) were included. Compared with the control group, EIN group had a significantly decreased incidence of overall complications (RR = 0.79, Conclusions: EIN is safe and effective in reducing overall complications, infectious complications, and hospital stay in patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery (including gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, esophageal cancer, periampullary cancer, or pancreatic cancer).
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