Patients suffering from severe dementia often experience a natural decline in their ability to eat and digest food, which is part of the broader decline in their functional status. In such cases, the ...

Sligo University Hospital has apologised to an 82-year-old woman whose throat was perforated during a routine endoscopic ...

There is overwhelming evidence that the maintenance of enteral feeding is beneficial in patients in whom oral access has been diminished or lost. Short-term enteral access is usually achieved via naso ...

Patients with pancreatic cancer experience multiple nutrition-impact symptoms affecting the intake, digestion and absorption of nutrients. Maintenance of nutrition status is therefore difficult with ...

Studies will be selected according to the following criteria. Included studies will involve adult patients with an indication for enteral nutrition via a nasoenteral feeding tube, as indicated by the ...

All cases were completed without complication and with successful PEG feeding. Conclusion PEG tube placement for enteral nutrition may be completed in patients with compound hiatus hernia and ...