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  • Title: [The place of modern nutritional techniques in the treatment of digestive fistulae (author's transl)].
    Author: Carpentier Y, Janne P, Mendes da Costa P.
    Journal: Acta Chir Belg; 1976 Mar; 75(2):217-30. PubMed ID: 816125.
    Abstract:
    Twenty-six patients with a digestive fistula have received a parenteral or enteral nutrition consisting of an elemental diet. They are separated into 2 groups according to good or bad vital prognosis of the desease treated conventionally. In 13 of the 18 patients with a poor prognosis, the nutritional techniques were started early: twelve were rapidly cured. In 5 patients of this group nutrition was started late, after one or many surgical failures and an important deterioration of the general status: only 2 were cured. These results agree with those of the literature; they show the advantages of the systematic use of these special types of nutrition in cases of digestive fistula and the importance of early use of these new methods.
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