Complications and Mortality After Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy in Geriatrics: A Prospective Multicenter Observational Trial

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 228-233

  Wirth, Rainer ^a,b   Voss, Christian ^a   Smoliner, Christine ^a   Sieber, Cornel C ^b,c   Bauer, Juergen M ^b,c   Volkert, Dorothee ^b  

^a St Marien Hospital Borken   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Nuremberg Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications; Elderly; Mortality; Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy; Tube feeding

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; DIARRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84857189735     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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