title: [Jejunostomy for enteral feeding in surgery. Technical contribution and experience].
abstract: The necessity to maintain the nutritional integrity in patients subjected to major surgery of the superior digestive tract has been broadly accepted. The enteral nutrition for yeyunostomy is accepted as more physiologic, sure and effective than the parenteral one.
  
  
  METHODS
  171 yeyunostomies were indicated in: 151 patients with malignant neoplasm of the superior digestive tract, 15 with infected pancreatic necrosis, 3 bile-duodenum-pancreatic traumatisms and in 1 stenosis for gastroesophagic reflux. Depending on the pathological type, a yeyunostomy using the Witzell technique was carried out with either local or general anesthesia at a 15 to 20 cm. of the Treitz angle. To facilitate the fixation of the catheter and to avoid the stenosis of the jejunum we have incorporated, as an original technical detail, the proximal serous section with cold scalpel in about 4 cm, that is to say in the sector to be tunneled.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was not mortality in relation to the yeyunostomy. Among the minor complications we emphasize the abdominal distension, colic pain and diarrhea, situations that were reverted, controlling the debit and the feeding characteristics. This approach could be maintained for period of 2 months and in some cases at home.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We emphasize the great importance of the enteral feeding for yeyunostomy, for its of easy handling, security and low cost that, together with the suggested technical detail, has allowed us to obtain a deeding road almost without inherent complications.
authors.affiliation: Cátedra de Cirugía Prof. Dr. Pablo L. Mirizzi Hospital Nacional de Clínicas Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, U.N.C.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gramática
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mercado Luna
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bono
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Badra
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Veraday
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Caballero
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Lada
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gramática
mesh_terms: D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007582:Jejunostomy; D008297:Male; D011182:Postoperative Care