[Enteral nutrition--nasojejunal tube or percutaneous jejunostomy?]

As many as 60% patients develop malnutrition during the postoperative period. Enteral nutrition can prevent its development or at least mitigate its manifestations. The author mentions the advantages, disadvantages, indications and contraindications of enteral nutrition. He mentions tho advantages and disadvantages of two routes of establishment of enteral nutrition, i.e. by a nasoenteral tube and by puncture stomy. Of many possible procedures he describes experience with a nasojejunal tube and with puncture jejunostomy. He deals with complications he recorded with both methods and presents two case-histories of less common application of puncture jejunostomy. The author prefers the use of puncture jejunostomy to that of a nasojejunal tube and recommends its use after surgery of the upper GIT and in acute necrotizing pancreatitis.