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Title: Fistuloclysis--a Valuable Option for a Difficult Problem (Case Study)
Author : South African Journal of Surgery
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 63 KB

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Despite the great advances in the management of high-output enterocutaneous fistulas (HOECFs), this condition remains a challenge for surgeons in both the developing and developed worlds. Since the early 1960s, nutritional support has been the mainstay of management that expedites the spontaneous healing of the fistula or, if healing does not occur, ensures that the patient is nutritionally optimised for surgical reconstruction. (1-5) In most practices, the rapid and considerable metabolic and nutritional deficits that follow the development of a HOECF prompt the parenteral delivery of nutritional support, invariably via a central vein; however, enteral nutritional support alone has been reported to be equally effective in selective clinical situations. (6)