Enteral Nutrition After Pancreaticoduodenectomy

Summary

Pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) is the treatment of choice for resectable periampullary cancer. PD is still associated with a relatively a high incidence of delayed gastric emptying. And, there are no acknowledged strategies to avoid DGE. Several feeding strategies have been investigated to cope with this problem. However, there is still no consensus concerning the best nutrition support method after pancreaticoduodenectomy. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of nutrition support methods on DGE after pancreaticoduodenectomy: early enteral nutrition or total parenteral nutrition.

Patients undergoing pancreatoduodenectomy will be randomized to receive early enteral nutrition (EN group), or Saline administration (Saline group), or oral intake only (Natural control). The EN group will receive standard enteral diet administered through a nasojejunal tube. Enteral nutrition will be started on the 1st postoperative day and increased daily by 20-40 ml up to the estimated level. The Saline group will receive saline administered through a nasojejunal tube beginning from the 1st postoperative day. Oral intake will not be restricted in all three group.

Conditions

• Cancer of Pancreas
• Cancer of Duodenum
• Ampulla of Vater Cancer
• Cholangiocarcinoma

Interventions

OTHER

Early enteral nutrition

Naso-jejunal tube will be placed intraoperatively. The distal end of the feeding tube would be placed at 30 cm distal to Treitz ligament. Standard enteral diet, administered through a nasojejunal tube, is started on the 1st postoperative day and increased daily by 20-40 ml up to the estimated level. After PD, enteral nutrition liquid regimen will be used step by step from postoperative day 1 to postoperative day 7.Patients are targeted to receive calories for 25 kcal/kg/day. Meanwhile, oral food intake was not restricted.

OTHER

Saline

Naso-jejunal tube will be placed intraoperatively. The distal end of the feeding tube would be placed at 30 cm distal to Treitz ligament. After PPPD,Only Normal Saline were given through nasojejunal tube. Entral nutrition was not administrated. Patients intake food orally at will.

DEVICE

nasojejunal tube insertion

OTHER

Oral intake

Patients was encouraged to drink water on postoperative day 1, to eat liquid diet on postoperative day 2, to eat semi-solid on postoperative day 3, to eat solid food on postoperative day 4.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Nanjing Medical University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Yi Miao, Prof. · Pancreas Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

• Junli Wu, MD,PhD · Pancreas Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

• Jishu Wei, MD,PhD · Pancreas Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

80 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-09-30

Primary Completion

2017-12-31

Completion

2018-02-28

Countries

• China

Study Locations