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Lewis, Dylan, Ampong, Mary-Ann, Rio, Alan, Willey, Emma, Johnson, Julia, Shaw, Christopher E, Ellis, Catherine M, Al-Chalabi, Ammar, Leigh, P Nigel and Sidhu, Paul S (2009) Mushroom-cage gastrostomy tube placement in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a 5-year experience in 104 patients in a single institution. European Radiology, 19 (7). pp. 1763-71. ISSN 0938-7994
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To review our experience of placement of a mushroom-cage gastrostomy tube (Entristar, Tyco Healthcare, Mansfield, MA), using radiological guidance, in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). All procedures were performed under local anaesthesia without sedation. Complications were recorded as peri-procedural, early (<24 h), late (>24 h), major or minor. Deaths were recorded as related to the underlying ALS or secondary to radiological-inserted gastrostomy (RIG) placement. Replacement RIG tube rate was recorded. Over a 5-year period RIG tubes were placed in 104 patients with ALS (male n = 52, female n = 52), with a median age of 62 years (range 34-86 years). All procedures were technically successful. Of the RIG procedures, 21/104 (20.2%) were performed with respiratory support. The 30-day mortality rate was 7/104 (6.7%); no patient died as a result of the procedure. There were 23/104 (22.1%) complications overall; 20/104 (19.2%) were minor and 3/104 (2.9%) major, requiring surgery (n = 2) and radiological-guided abscess drainage (n = 1). A median interval between replacement RIG procedures in 20/104 (19.2%) patients was 141.5 days (range 43-537 days). A mushroom-cage RIG tube may be safely and effectively inserted in a 'one-step' radiological procedure and may replace endoscopic-inserted gastrostomy tubes in the nutritional management of ALS
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Gastrostomy - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Stomach - Interventional procedure |
| Schools and Departments: | Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Clinical and Experimental Medicine Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Neuroscience |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry > RC0346 Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system Including speech disorders |
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| Depositing User: | Patricia Butler |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2012 12:41 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2017 13:49 |
| URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/42512 |