esophageal endoscopic vacuum therapy with enteral feeding using a sengstaken-blakemore tube
;So Young Lee;Kun Woo Kim;Jae-Ik Lee;Dong-Kyun Park;Kook-Yang Park;Chul-Hyun Park;Kuk-Hui Son
health promotion international2018Vol. 51pp. 76-80
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lee2018koreanesophageal
Abstract
Early diagnosis followed by primary repair is the best treatment for spontaneous esophageal perforation.
However, the appropriate management of esophageal leakage after surgical repair is still controversial.
Recently, the successful adaptation of vacuum-assisted closure therapy, which is well established for the
treatment of chronic surface wounds, has been demonstrated for esophageal perforation or leakage.
Conservative treatment methods require long-term fasting with total parenteral nutrition or enteral feeding
through invasive procedures, such as percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy or a feeding jejunostomy. We report
2 cases of esophageal leakage after primary repair treated by endoscopic vacuum therapy with continuous
enteral feeding using a Sengstaken-Blakemore tube.