Effect of different nutritional status of elderly patients with rectal cancer before surgery on postoperative reha-bilitation / 局解手术学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To summarize the prognosis of elderly patients with colorectal cancer excision who were divided into different groups by the nutritional status before their surgery.Methods In our hospital,100 patients (age from 64 to 70)with colorectal cancer were performed the screening of nutritional risk by NRS2002 before surgery.Patients with score from 1 to 2 were as the group A,and patients with score over 3 were as group B.The related indexes and recovery between two groups were compared.Results The NRS2002 rating scale score showed that 76 patients were at nutritional risk,37 cases among them received nutrition support and had faster recovery of intestinal function the time of tube pulled out after operation[(1.8 ±0.4)d vs.(2.9 ±1.5)d],exhaust time[(2.4 ±0.6)d vs.(4.3 ±0.9)d],time of in-take food[(2.9 ±0.5)d vs.(4.5 ±1.1)d],length of stay[(10.8 ±0.9)d vs.(14.1 ±1.3)d],incidence of infection related complica-tions (0 vs.5.13%),the differences were statistically significant(P <0.05).Conclusion Problems exist in varying degrees of loss of nu-trition in elderly colorectal cancer patients before surgery,an objective assessment of the extent and targeted care and nutritional support can significantly improve the postoperative nutrition and to facilitate recovery of gastrointestinal function after surgery.