(n.) The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.
Example Sentences:
(1) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
(2) To determine whether long-term enteral feedings can improve nutritional status and lung function parameters in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), 11 patients (8 female, 3 male, age 7 to 23 years) received a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) since February 1988.
(3) On December 14, 1990, the gastrostomy tube which had kept Nancy alive since the accident was removed and she died 11 days later.
(4) Since it was first described Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) has rapidly become the preferred method for gastrostomy tube placement.
(5) Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become a commonly performed procedure to provide nutritional support to chronically ill patients.
(6) The gastrostomy catheter can be easily removed when treatment is ended and conveniently replaced if accidentally dislodged.
(7) One hundred thirty-six percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies (PEGs) were placed in 126 patients with head and neck malignancies.
(8) Five patients (1.8%) who inadvertently removed their gastrostomy tube within seven days of insertion were treated with immediate replacement using the retrograde string technique, avoiding laparotomy.
(9) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(10) Factors which appeared to predispose to infection in 11 patients included "re-do" operations, concomitant cholecystectomy or gastrostomy, and ruptured abdominal aneurysm.
(11) Ante-thoracal lateral jejunostomy is thought to be indicated to patients with massive injuries of the stomach or complications of gastrostomy.
(12) The stitcher surgical treatment of the lacerations associated with gastrostomy and lengthy parenteral nutrition did not prevent the recurrence of the esophagus-pleural fistula, and an esophagectomy plus cervical esophagostomy was required.
(13) One had a previous partial fundoplication and gastrostomy, and the other had had two pyloroplasties and gastrostomy.
(14) Initially, treatment was by surgical bougienage but following esophageal perforation, 65 balloon dilatations were performed over an 8-month period using a retrograde approach via a feeding gastrostomy without anesthesia or sedation.
(15) PEG as the initial choice for feeding tube placement followed by surgical gastrostomy in patients in whom PEG is unsuccessful is a reasonable approach to nutritional management in appropriate patients.
(16) Recently, alternative percutaneous method for placement of gastrostomy tube have been developed and several large series have been published in the English literatures.
(17) Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy provides a nonsurgical alternative to enteral feeding.
(18) We have used this technique in six patients with gastro-esophageal reflux, four with gastric perforation, two with gastric outlet obstruction, two with duodenal perforations, and two patients with gastrostomy breakdown.
(19) This was treated by a cyst-gastrostomy following which the patient has remained well without complications for 12 years.
(20) This is a prospective study concerning 101 percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies (PEG) performed in patients aged from 70 to 98 (83.6).
Operation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
(n.) The method of working; mode of action.
(n.) That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
(n.) Effect produced; influence.
(n.) Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
(n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(4) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(5) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(6) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(7) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(8) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(9) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(10) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(11) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(12) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(13) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(15) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(16) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(17) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(18) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(19) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
(20) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.