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Objective To investigate the efficacy of enteral nutrition containing glutamine on improving blood lipids and immune parameters in elderly patients with gastrointestinal cancer.Methods 98 cases of elderly patients with gastrointestinal cancer were randomly divided into observation group(n=5 1)and control group (n=47).The control group was additionally given conventional enteral nutrition,and the observation group was additionally given enteral nutrition containing glutamine.The levels of albumin (ALB),tumor necrosis factor (TNF),indicators of cellular immunity,indicators of humoral immune function and blood lipid,before and after operation,were observed in the two groups.Results 9 days after operation,the levels of ALB and total cholesterol,per-centage of CD8 + cells were lower than those in the control group,and levels of TFN,IgA,triacylglycerol,low density lipoprotein cholesterin,percentage of CD4 + cells and CD4/CD8 ratio were higher than those in the control group,and have significant differ-ences (P 0.05).Conclusion Enteral nutrition containing glutamine can significantly improve blood lipids and immune function in elderly pa-tients with gastrointestinal cancer,which may have important clinical research value and be worthy of further application.
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Objective To introduce how to improve the operation quality and clinical effect of pancreatoduodenectomy (PD). Methods The morbidity and mortality of 126 patients with pancreatic head cancer or peri ampullary cancer treated by PD of traditional Child method and modified Child method ( pancreatic stump closing style pancrea to jejunum anastomosis) in our department from 1973 to 2002 were analyzed retrospectively. Results In modified Child method group, the morbidity of pancreatic leakage and the mortality of the operation were 2.4% and 4.7% respectively, which were significantly lower than those in the traditional method group(P
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Objective To evaluate the therapeutic effect of combined splenorenal shunt and portaazygous devascularization on bleeding esophageal varices.Methods We summarized 120 cases suffering from esophageal variceal bleeding treated by splenorenal shunt plus portaazygods devascularization,from April,1978 to April,1997.Results The operative mortality was 4.2%,no short-term postoperative bleeding,and long-term postoperative bleeding rate was 9.5%,postoperative hepatic encephalopathy rate was 4.8%.Five,ten and fifteen years survival rate were 83.6%,64.5% and 54.5% respectively. The portal hemodynamics was observed by means of Doppler flowmeter,DSA,and intraoperative portal pressure measurement in some of the patients.Conclusion The result showed that combined shunt and portaazygous devacularization not only preserve the advantage of devacularization but also decrease the portal pressure and blood volume,alleviating portal hyperhemodynamics while preserve hepatopetal blood flow to some extent.