Feeding tube replacement: not always that simple!

• Main Authors: Mateus Quitembo Soares da Silva (Author), Alex Lederman (Author), Ricardo Frank Coelho da Rocha (Author), Rodrigo Montenegro Lourenção (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Although surgical gastrostomy is not a technically troublesome surgery, the procedure may be accompanied by unfavorable outcomes. Most complications occur early in the post-operative period and include feeding tube dislodgment, stomal infection, peritonitis, and pneumonia. The authors report the cas...