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From: Night home enteral nutrition as a novel enforced and physiologically effective nutrition therapy following total gastrectomy for gastric cancer

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The flow chart of study design and patients’ selection. Between January 1, 2017 and March 31, 2019, 52 consecutive pStage I–III patients underwent curative total gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy. Of these, 14 patients between January 1, 2017 and August 31, 2017 were retrospectively enrolled and did not use night home enteral nutrition (N-HEN), and the remaining 38 patients were prospectively enrolled between September 1, 2017 and March 31, 2019. Of these, 26 patients hoped to use N-HEN and 12 patients refused. As a result, of 52 patients, 26 patients were included as the N-HEN group and 26 patients were included as the control group (CG). In the N-HEN group, one recurrent patient within 6 months and one patient who developed another cancer within 6 months were removed. In CG, two postoperative mortality patients due to acute myocardial infarction and aspiration pneumonia and two recurrent patients were removed. Finally, 24 patients as a N-HEN group and 22 patients as a CG were included for further analyses.

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