title: [Home enteral nutrition for gastrectomy patients to provide "seamless nutritional support"].
abstract: Gastrectomy patients are always likely to face malnutrition because of a small volume intake, chemotherapy, recurrence of cancer, etc. Authors achieved "Seamless Nutritional Support" for gastrectomy patients using jejunostomy. We applied jejunostomy using a NCJ kit for 244 gastrectomy patients during the gastrectomy operation. Forty four patients did the night time home EN using jejunostomy. The patients maintained a good QOL because of this nutritional support at home. Sixty percent of the patients were performed outpatient chemotherapy with home EN. They could continue the chemotherapy safely on the basis of nutritional care.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Ohkubo Hospital.
authors.forename: Michio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maruyama
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagahama
authors.forename: Shouji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maruyama
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D007582:Jejunostomy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018529:Nutritional Support; D016331:Parenteral Nutrition, Home / Q000379:methods; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*