A Coleraine mother has been told that carers can resume nursing duties for her daughter almost a year since the assistance ...

In November the footballer, who captained the Lionesses between 2014 and 2021, revealed Darby had been fitted with a feeding tube following a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy to help him get ...

In general, percutaneously placed percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) or combination PEG/percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy (PEJ) tubes have limited roles in the treatment of gastroparesis.

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a common practice usually offered to patients who are unable to tolerate or swallow oral feed and require long-term nutrition. We present a case of early ...

Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital, London. The insertion of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy has been well documented. The possible benefits for patient nutrition and nursing ...

For patients with aerodigestive malignancy we do T-PEGs with a Pexact ‘push-PEG’ gastropexy device and a balloon gastrostomy tube A prospective database is maintained and was used for this review ...

Two cohort studies, 15 case series, and eight case reports met the inclusion criteria. Eight studies specifically described percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy as the intervention. Weight gain ...

A small number of people will have a feeding tube in permanently. A feeding tube may be placed either: directly through the stomach, called a PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) or RIG ...

Dysphagia is usually managed using compensatory strategies (early nasogastric feeding, thickened fluids, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding), but rehabilitation strategies aiming to ...

The scale rates three sections of the colon, right (cecum and ascending colon), mid-colon (transverse and descending) and rectosigmoid, on a five-point scale (0–4). Total score (0–14) is ...