title: [Does contribute early enteral nutrition to decrease the complications of radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer?].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate whether the administration of early enteral nutrition in postoperative gastrectomized patients due gastric cancer helps to reduce the frequency of postoperative complications.
  
  
  METHODS
  A case-control study with 120 patients, 60 with postoperative complications (cases) and 60 patients without post operative complications (controls) matched for age and sex.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The uni-variable analysis found that albumin (p=0.03), hematocrit (p=0.004), early enteral nutrition (p<0.01), stage of gastric cancer (p=0.013), behaved as variables associated with the development of postoperative complications. However, in this multivariable analysis, only early enteral nutrition (p=0.014), hematocrit (0.019) and pathological stage (0.013), showed statistically significant association.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The early enteral nutrition administered by nasoenteral tube in the immediate postoperative period, with the hematocrit level and the anatomopathological disease stage is associated with statistically decreased postoperative complications in patients undergoing radical surgery for gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Médico Asistente del Servicio de Cirugía General del Hospital IV Alberto Sabogal Sologuren.
authors.forename: Ronald Christian
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Delgado Delgado
authors.forename: Carlos E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Luque Vásquez
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005260:Female; D005763:Gastroenterostomy; D006400:Hematocrit; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011178:Postgastrectomy Syndromes / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012709:Serum Albumin / Q000032:analysis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D012709:Serum Albumin