Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: Indications, technique, complications and management

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 7739-7751

  Rahnemai Azar, Ata A ^a   Rahnemaiazar, Amir A ^a   Naghshizadian, Rozhin ^a   Kurtz, Amparo ^a   Farkas, Daniel T ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Contraindication; Enteral feeding; Gastrostomy tube; Indication; Management; Percutaneous

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; BURIED BUMPER SYNDROME; CATHETER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CROHN DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DEMENTIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; GRANULOMA; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEOPLASM; ORGAN INJURY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERIOSTOMAL LEAKAGE; PERITONITIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STOMACH OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH TUBE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBE DISLODGMENT; TUMOR SEEDING; WOUND INFECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTROSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEVICE REMOVAL; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTROSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84903217989     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i24.7739     Document Type: Article

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