The Impact of Immunostimulating Nutrition on the Outcome of Surgery
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2005-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The aim of the study was to assess the clinical effect of immunostimulatory enteral and
parenteral nutrition in patients undergoing resection for gastrointestinal cancer. 205
subjects were randomly assigned into four study groups, standard and immunostimulating,
enteral and parenteral. The study was designed to test the hypothesis that immunonutrition
and enteral nutrition would reduce the incidence of infectious complications following upper
gastrointestinal surgery.