Oct. 29, 2004 — Use of a double-lumen gastrojejunostomy tube (GJT) for gastric decompression and enteral feeding is safe and significantly reduces the incidence of gastroparesis, postoperative ...

The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

Gastroparesis is a poorly defined chronic digestive disorder that is difficult to treat. This disorder is most rigorously defined as symptoms of, and evidence for, gastric retention in the absence of ...

A 67-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with severe dysphagia, persistent vomiting, epigastric pain and abdominal distension. The results of a electrocardiograph were normal, and a ...