Clinical study of enteral versus parenteral nutrition support in severe acute pancreatitis / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To compare enteral nutrition (EN) and parenteral nutrition (PN) in the treatment of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP), in order to elucidate the feasibility and advantage of EN. Method 65 patients were randomly divided into PN and EN groups. The nutritional status and the immunologic index were determined on the 1st, 7th and 14th day after giving the nutritional support, and the incidence of the complications, infection rate, mortality rate, hospital stay days and hospital expenditure were compared. Results After giving the nutritional support, the serum contents of albumin and transferrin were increased obviously, and blood glucose and blood diastase were lowered significantly in both PN and EN groups (P