Article: Reports from Gunma University, Medical Department describe recent advances in aspiration pneumonia.

"Patients who have undergone a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy have been increasing. However. complications in serious patients are encountered more frequently. We attempted to examine the simple and new technique for the purpose of preventing complications in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy patients," investigators in Maebashi, Japan report (see also Aspiration Pneumonia).

"By Using our method of measuring of the intragastric pressure during the fasting period, the aspiration pneumonia of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy patient could be estimated. From January 2003 to December 2005, one hundred and thirty-two consecutive patients were examined. The ...

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