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Oral health status of adult dysphagic patients that undergo endoscopic gastrost...
Lopes, Sara; Tavares, Vitor; Mascarenhas, Paulo; Lopes, Marta; Cardote, Carolina; Godinho, Catarina; Oliveira, Cátia; Santos, Carla AdrianaBackground: Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) is required to maintain a feeding route when neurological or cancer dysphagia impact oral intake. This study aimed to evaluate the oral health and oral changes of PEG-patients without oral feeding for three months.
Oral health status of adult dysphagic patients that undergo endoscopic gastrost...
Lopes, Sara; Tavares, Vitor; Mascarenhas, Paulo; Lopes, Marta; Cardote, Carolina; Godinho, Catarina; Oliveira, Cátia; Santos, Carla AdrianaBackground: Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) is required to maintain a feeding route when neurological or cancer dysphagia impact oral intake. This study aimed to evaluate the oral health and oral changes of PEG-patients without oral feeding for three months. Methods: Prospective observational study, with a PEG-patients convenience sample. Data were obtained before PEG (T0) and 3 months after gastrostomy (T1). Init...
Comparing assessment tools as candidates for personalized nutritional evaluatio...
Sousa-Catita, Diogo; Bernardo, Maria Alexandra; Santos, Carla Adriana; Silva, Maria Leonor; Mascarenhas, Paulo; Godinho, Catarina; Fonseca, JorgeNutrition is an important health issue for seniors. In nursing homes, simple, inexpensive, fast, and validated tools to assess nutritional risk/status are indispensable. A multisurvey cross-sectional study with a convenient sample was created, comparing five nutritional screening/assessment tools and the time required for each, in order to identify the most useful instrument for a nursing home setting. Nutritio...
Long-term intestinal failure and home parenteral nutrition: a single center exp...
Padinha, Mafalda; Oliveira, Cátia; Carlos, Sandra; Santos, Ana Paula; Brito, Marta; Santos, Carla Adriana; Fonseca, JorgeIntestinal failure is the reduction in gut function below the minimum necessary for the absorption of macronutrients and/or water electrolytes. The based treatment for type II and III intestinal failure patients is home parenteral nutrition (HPN) and hydration (HPH). This is a case-series study of HPN/HPH patients of the Hospital Garcia de Orta, Portugal, where thirteen patients present different underlying dis...
Ingesta nutricional en pacientes afectados de esclerosis lateral amiotrófica en...
Carrera-Juliá, Sandra; Moreira, Ana Catarina; Santos, Carla Adriana; Fonseca, Jorge; Drehmer, EraciIntroducción: La esclerosis lateral amiotrófica (ELA) es una patología neurodegenerativa crónica y pro-gresiva, que produce la muerte de las motoneuronas. Deriva en pérdida de peso, de masa muscular e incremento de deficiencias nutricionales. Existe relación entre la ingesta nutricional y la patogénesis de la ELA. El objetivo de este análisis fue describir las características sociodemográficas, antropométricas ...
Endoscopic gastrostomy for nutritional support in post-stroke dysphagia
Patita, Marta; Nunes, Gonçalo; Grunho, Miguel; Santos, Carla Adriana; Fonseca, JorgeIntroduction: persistent dysphagia affects 15 % of stroke patients and contributes to malnutrition, aspiration, and death. This study aimed to characterize patients with post-stroke dysphagia who underwent percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), and to assess the impact of PEG feeding on nutritional status and outcome. Methods: an observational and retrospective study using records from patients with post-st...
Comparing assessment tools as candidates for personalized nutritional evaluatio...
Sousa-Catita, Diogo; Bernardo, Maria Alexandra; Santos, Carla Adriana; Silva, Maria Leonor; Mascarenhas, Paulo; Godinho, Catarina; Fonseca, JorgeNutrition is an important health issue for seniors. In nursing homes, simple, inexpensive, fast, and validated tools to assess nutritional risk/status are indispensable. A multisurvey cross-sectional study with a convenient sample was created, comparing five nutritional screening/assessment tools and the time required for each, in order to identify the most useful instrument for a nursing home setting. Nutritio...
Ingesta nutricional en pacientes afectados de esclerosis lateral amiotrófica en...
Carrera-Juliá, Sandra; Moreira, Ana Catarina; Santos, Carla Adriana; Fonseca, Jorge; Drehmer, EraciIntroducción: La esclerosis lateral amiotrófica (ELA) es una patología neurodegenerativa crónica y progresiva, que produce la muerte de las motoneuronas. Deriva en pérdida de peso, de masa muscular e incremento de deficiencias nutricionales. Existe relación entre la ingesta nutricional y la patogénesis de la ELA. El objetivo de este análisis fue describir las características sociodemográficas, antropométricas y...
Nutritional status and functional status of the pancreatic cancer patients and ...
Santos, I.; Mendes, Lino; Mansinho, H.; Santos, Carla AdrianaRationale & aims: Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the third most common type of gastrointestinal tract cancer in Europe and the fourth leading cause of death by cancer. Its initial stage is asymptomatic Therefore, the diagnosis tends to be late leading to locally advanced stages that presuppose late and debilitating symptoms, which consequently makes the Nutritional Status (NS) get worse. The weight loss (WL), malnut...
Nutritional status, functional status, and quality of life: what is the impact ...
Santos, Inês Miranda; Mendes, Lino; Carolino, Elisabete; Santos, Carla AdrianaRationale and aims: Malnutrition is common and multifactorial in cancer patients (CP), combining the systemic inflammatory process with decreased food intake, loss of muscle and bone mass, and decreased functional status (FS). We aimed to track and evaluate the nutritional status (NS) of CP; associate results between hospitalized patients (HP) and day hospital patients (DHP); associate NS with tumor, symptoms, ...