title: Early postoperative enteral nutrition is useful for recovering gastrointestinal motility and maintaining the nutritional status.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The efficacy of enteral nutrition in postoperative nutritional management is known, but the effects on gastrointestinal motility and nutrition have not yet been elucidated. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of enteral and parenteral nutrition soon after open abdominal surgery on gastrointestinal motility and nutritional status.
  
  
  METHODS
  A partial resection of rectum models was prepared to compare two types of nutrient administration: enteral nutrition and total parenteral nutrition. The differences between the effects of nutrition types in terms of gastrointestinal motility and nutritional status were investigated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Enteral nutrition contributed to recovery of gastrointestinal motility and maintenance of nutritional status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Enteral nutrition should therefore be initiated soon after surgery if the gastrointestinal tract is available.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8 Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
authors.forename: Naruo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawasaki
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakayoshi
authors.forename: Nobuyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hanyu
authors.forename: Masatoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakao
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Furukawa
authors.forename: Hideyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kashiwagi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003107:Colorectal Surgery; D004285:Dogs; D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000379:methods*; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D023421:Models, Animal; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D011184:Postoperative Period; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D016896:Treatment Outcome