Within a 5-year period, 92 PEG tube were inserted into 85 patients (22 female, 63 male). Excluding one patient, a 5-year-old girl, their ages ranged from 20 to 87 years with a mean age of 55.94 ± ...
A feeding tube is a device that’s inserted into your stomach through your abdomen. It’s used to supply nutrition when you have trouble eating. Feeding tube insertion is also called percutaneous ...
Fully a third of patients who have certain feeding tubes placed for Parkinson’s disease-related dysphagia are discharged to an eldercare facility, a new outcomes study has found. Investigators ...