• Department of General Surgery, Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China;
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ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of glutamineenhanced enteral nutritional support on elder patients after total gastrectomy. MethodsA total of eightyfour cases of elder patients receiving total gastrectomy were included in this study from February 2008 to August 2010. The patients were randomly divided into three groups: glutamineenhanced enteral nutrition (Gln) group, enteral nutrition (EN) group and parenteral nutrition (PN) group. The complications and hospital stay after operation were compared, and the levels of serum total protein, albumin, proalbumin, and transferrin of patients were measured before operation, on 2 d and 10 d after operation, respectively. Furthermore, the percentage of CD4 and CD8 T cells, CD4/CD8 ratio, and the levels of serum IgM and IgG of patients in peripheral blood before and after operation were detected. ResultsNutritional therapy was successfully performed in patients of three groups. The anal exhaust time and hospital stay after operation of patients in Gln group and EN group were significantly lower than those in PN group (P lt;0.05). The difference of postoperative complications and digestive tract symptoms of patients in three groups was not obvious (P lt;0.05). Anastomotic fistula occurred in one patient of PN group on 6 d after operation and was cured by conservative treatment for 54 d. The difference of total protein, albumin, proalbumin, and transferrin levels of patients in three groups before operation was not significant (P gt;0.05), and these indexes fell dramatically on 2 d after operation and lower than before operation (P lt;0.05), although the intergroup difference was not statistically significant (P gt;0.05). On 10 d after operation, all indexes recovered in different extent, while those data in Gln group and EN group were significantly higher than those on 2 d after operation (P lt;0.05). The levels of total protein, albumin, and proalbumin of patients in Gln group and EN group were markedly higher than those in PN group (P lt;0.05), although there was no difference between the former groups (P gt;0.05). The difference of several immunological parameters of patients in three groups before operation was not significant (P gt;0.05). On 10 d after operation, the percentage of CD4 and CD8 T cells, CD4/CD8 ratio, and the levels of serum IgM and IgG of patients in Gln group returned and even exceeded the preoperative results, which were significantly higher than those in EN group and PN group other than IgM (P lt;0.05). The postoperative results of all parameters except IgG in EN group were significantly lower than preoperative results in patients of EN group and PN group (P lt;0.05). ConclusionsIt is safe and feasible to elder patients who had received total gastrectomy and perioperative glutamine-enhanced nutritional support, which can improve nutrition and immune status, promote the recovery and reduce the duration of hospital stay, and nutritiional support after total gastrectomy is one of the optimal choices for these patients.

Citation: LIU Hua,LING Wei,CAO Hui. Clinical Evaluation of Immune-Enhanced Enteral Nutrition in The Elderly Patients after Total Gastrectomy. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2011, 18(11): 1188-1193. doi: Copy