The PEG tube placement had been successfully ... During the follow-up period gastrostomy tubes were removed from 15 patients due to commencement of oral feeding. In these patients, gastrocutaneous ...

In rare cases, it can be used for longer-term nutrition if the patient is not a candidate for a feeding tube placed directly in the abdomen. Gastrostomy Tube: Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) ...

A mother whose 13-year-old son has a serious heart condition has pleaded for nurses to be retained in special schools. She ...

receive a feeding tube – known as a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, or PEG tube – and undergo an EDG, which can diagnose stomach ulcers. That treatment, it turned out, had been prescribed ...