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The present high degree of safety of enteral nutrition is due to improvements in commercial nutritional products and, chiefly, to the respect of well-established rules of administration. Monitoring the equipment consists of making sure, by means of repeated rinsing, that the fine digestive tract prosthesis remains patent. Nutrients are now sterile and easy to use, and their compositions varied and well-balanced. They are very well tolerated in most cases. Monitoring the speed of gastrointestinal (GI) transit is crucial. One must watch for the occurrence of multiple daily stools, due to the speed of administration or to malabsorption, proliferation of exogenous or endogenous pathogens or patient's underlying pathology, and for a gastric fluid residual volume exceeding 150 ml. Regular controls of gastric emptying and of GI prosthesis position prevent the very rare complications that are aspiration pneumonia and unexplained chronic dyspnoea. Possible interference between enteral nutrition and patient's pathology or treatment must be detected and prevented.
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PMID:[Biological and clinical surveillance techniques: problems and complications of enteral feeding]. 190 74

Amyloidosis is a group of disorders characterized by the extracellular accumulation of insoluble, fibrillar proteins in various organs and tissues. It is classified, on the basis of the identity of the precursor protein, as primary, secondary, or familial amyloidosis. Gastrointestinal amyloidosis usually presents as bleeding, ulceration, malabsorption, protein loss, and diarrhea. However, gastric amyloidosis with gastric outlet obstruction mimicking linitis plastica is rare. We report a case of gastrointestinal amyloidosis with gastric outlet obstruction in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis. The patient was indicated for subtotal gastrectomy because of the aggravation of obstructive symptoms, but refused the operation and was transferred to another hospital. Three months later, the patient died of aspiration pneumonia during medical treatment.
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PMID:Gastric outlet obstruction due to gastric amyloidosis mimicking malignancy in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis. 2434 Feb 60