gastrostomy tube

If feeding becomes difficult, a gastrostomy tube may be considered.

Gastrostomy tubes do not prevent people from eating by mouth.

The opening may be used for feeding, such as with a gastrostomy tube.

Sometimes, decompression is difficult even with a gastrostomy tube in place.

A drainage bag with a valve may also be attached to the gastrostomy tube.

This method requires a nasogastric or gastrostomy tube and pump.

He poured out a liquid food and turned on a pump to propel it into the gastrostomy tube.

A tube may be inserted into the stomach (gastrostomy tube) and out through the skin.

The gastrostomy tube is often placed using local numbing medicines (anesthesia).

Infants and patients fed via a gastrostomy tube can also be given a ketogenic diet.

Among those patients, 67% had base of tongue lesions and 82% of them used gastrostomy tube either before or during the treatment.

Because of delayed gastric emptying, a gastrostomy tube was inserted.

Moreover, he could swallow food and take meals by mouth, meaning he was no longer dependent on a gastrostomy tube.

A method for inserting a feeding gastrostomy tube without the need for surgery was first described in 1980.

Gastrostomy tube insertion requires a minor surgical procedure.

The gastrostomy tube is placed into the stomach and is attached to a drainage bag that can be easily concealed under clothing.

A gastrostomy tube also allows medications and liquids to be given directly into the stomach by pouring them down the tube.

In this study, gastrostomy tube feeding were placed in 42% of these infants due to feeding difficulties.

She cannot eat food, so she is fed through a gastrostomy tube that attaches to a plastic connector in her abdomen.

If the two parts of the esophagus are too short, further surgery may be needed and a gastrostomy tube may be temporarily used for feedings.

He undressed him and injected several medicines into his gastrostomy tube, which runs from a surgically created opening near Sam's waist directly to his stomach.

Enteral nutrition by nasogastric feeding, gastrointestinal, gastrojejunostomy, or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes.

Fundoplications (by preventing regurgitation) and gastrostomy tubes (to provide non oral nutrition) have reduced the frequency of hospitalization.

It may be particularly important, therefore, to aggressively target nutritional treatment at boys with Crohn's disease, by using long term nocturnal nasogastric or gastrostomy tube feeding.

In these cases, a gastrostomy tube is placed in the stomach to relieve pressure and prevent fluid from moving up the esophagus and into the trachea.