Percutaneous Transesophageal Gastrotubing: Alternative Tube Nutrition for a Patient with a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt

Overview

Journal Surg Neurol

Specialty Neurosurgery

Date 2008 Jul 12

PMID 18617229

Citations 2

Authors

Tetsuya Yamamoto

Takao Enomoto

Akira Matsumura

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Abstract

Background: We report a patient who underwent percutaneous transesophageal gastrotubing (PTEG), that is, nonsurgical esophagostomy under ultrasonographic control, as an alternative to percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG).

Case Description: The PTEG was placed for shunt protection from inadvertent infection in a 29-year-old male patient in whom a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt had previously been inserted. During the 3-year follow-up period, no complications associated with PTEG were experienced.

Conclusion: Percutaneous transesophageal gastrotubing is a good alternative to PEG in a patient with a VP shunt. Further investigation concerning the risk of infection related to PTEG and PEG in VP shunt patients is needed.

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