tube feeding have incurable neurological disease, often with behavioural difficulty. Patient traction on tubing and weight gain predispose to the internal PEG bumper eroding through the anterior ...

In BBS there is a growth of the gastric mucosa over the inner bumper of the PEG tube, affecting 0.–% of PEG tubes. Options for the management of BBS include the insertion of a jejunal extension, ...

The performance of a full diagnostic upper endoscopy is imperative before PEG tube placement. Wolfsen and colleagues [10] found that 36% of patients scheduled for PEG tube placement had endoscopic ...