title: [The late complications and nutritional follow-up in 96 patients who underwent a total gastrectomy].
abstract: Clinical and nutritional follow-up was performed in 96 patients who had undergone total gastrectomy. We studied the incidence of clinical complications and alterations of nutritional parameters in those patients who had undergone curative resection and were alive and free of neoplastic disease 1 year (36 patients) and 2 years (26 patients) after operation. We observed a very low incidence of late complications, and nutritional parameters, 1 year and 2 years after operation, were normal in almost all the patients. We obtained these results because we performed a Roux en Y esophagojejunostomy using an at least 60 cm-loop; we also adopted a strict and rigorous follow-up, able to guarantee an adequate daily calorie intake. In fact, a close relationship between calorie intake and the variations of nutritional parameters was observed.
authors.affiliation: I Divisione di Chirurgia Generale Pizzamiglio, Ospedale Niguarda Cà Granda, Milano.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pugliese
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gallitelli
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Berardi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Maggioni
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Salucci
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Russo
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011178:Postgastrectomy Syndromes / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000378:metabolism; D011788:Quality of Life; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Complicanze tardive e follow-up nutrizionale in 96 pazienti sottoposti a gastrectomia totale.