title: [The place of modern nutritional techniques in the treatment of digestive fistulae (author's transl)].
abstract: Twenty-six patients with a digestive fistula have received a parenteral or enteral nutrition consisting of an elemental diet. They are separated into 2 groups according to good or bad vital prognosis of the desease treated conventionally. In 13 of the 18 patients with a poor prognosis, the nutritional techniques were started early: twelve were rapidly cured. In 5 patients of this group nutrition was started late, after one or many surgical failures and an important deterioration of the general status: only 2 were cured. These results agree with those of the literature; they show the advantages of the systematic use of these special types of nutrition in cases of digestive fistula and the importance of early use of these new methods.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004937:Esophageal Fistula / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007412:Intestinal Fistula / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D011182:Postoperative Care
vernacular_title: La place des techniques modernes de nutrition dans la thérapeutique des fistules digestives