• 1. The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
  • 2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
HANBiao, Email: hanbiao66@msn.com
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Objective To systematically review the efficacy of early enteral nutrition (EN) versus parenteral nutrition (PN) for esophagus cancer patients after esophagectomy. Methods The following electronic databases as PubMed, EMbase, The Cochrane Library (Issue 6, 2016), Web of Science, CBM, WanFang Data and CNKI were searched from inception to June 2016 to collect randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on comparing early EN and PN for esophagus cancer patients after esophagectomy. Two reviewers independently screened literature according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, extracted data, and assessed the risk of bias of included studies. Then meta-analysis was performed by using RevMan 5.3 software. Results A total of 14 RCTs involving 2 275 patients were included. The results of meta-analysis showed that, compared with the PN group, the early EN group could improve postoperative levels of albumin (MD=1.12, 95%CI 0.03 to 2.20, P=0.04) and transferrin (MD=10.08, 95%CI 5.41 to 14.76, P<0.000 1), decrease the incidences of pulmonary infection (OR=0.36, 95%CI 0.25 to 0.53, P<0.000 01) and anastomotic leakage (OR=0.57, 95%CI 0.36 to 0.92, P=0.02), but there was no significant difference in postoperative level of prealbumin between two groups (MD=10.04, 95%CI -0.31 to 20.39, P=0.06). Conclusion The early EN could improve the postoperative levels of albumin and transferrin, decrease the incidences of pulmonary infection and anastomotic leakage, but could not improve the postoperative prealbumin level.

Citation: LIShuang, WANGLi-wei, HUWen-teng, LINRui-jiang, WEINing, ZHANGYu, MAMin-jie, HANBiao. Efficacy of Early Enteral Nutrition versus Parenteral Nutrition for Esophagus Cancer Patients after Esophagectomy: A Meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2016, 16(10): 1176-1182. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20160179 Copy

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