ABSTRACT
Objectives: Early postoperative inflammatory ileus(EPII) is a special type of ileus. For its special pathophysiological and clinical characters, EPII is hard to be treated.The combination therapy including total parenteral nutrition(TPN), enteral nutrition(EN), somatostatin and cortin has been used to treat EPII. Methods: From May 2001 to December 2001, 10 EPII patients were treated and the changes of clinical symptoms, serum total protein, albumin, prealbumin and the curative effect were observed. Results: All patients were cured without operation. Two days after treatment, the gastric juice was reduced from (1 377.5?856.8)ml to (484.0?396.3)ml ( P = 0.037 ) but the serum total protein, albumin and prealbumin had no changes. The clinical symptoms subsided quickly. Average TPN time was 21 days and EN time was 9 days. The average time in hospital was 32 days. Conclusions:The combination therapy can obviously alleviate the clinical symptoms, maintain the nutritional status and promote the recovery of intestinal function in EPII patient.