Table 1. Non-catheter related complications. Enteral feeding vs. TPN.
| Study | Number of patients | No. complications | Anastomotic leakage | Pneumonia | Mortality | Median hospital stay | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EN | TPN | EN | TPN | EN | TPN | EN | TPN | EN | TPN | EN | TPN | ||||||
| Baigrie et al. | 50 | 47 | 17 (34) | 27 (57.4)* | 5 (10) | 9 (19.1) | – | – | 4 (8) | 6 (12.8) | – | – | |||||
| Braga et al. | 126 | 131 | 62 (49.2) | 74 (56.5) | 9 (7.1) | 11 (8.4) | 3 (2.3) | 6 (4.6) | 3 (2.3) | 4 (3) | – | – | |||||
| Gabor et al. | 44 | 44 | – | – | 21 (47.8) | 23 (52.3) | 4 (9.1) | 11 (25) | 3 (6.8) | 4 (9.1) | 26 | 43* | |||||
| Fujita et al. | 76 | 88 | 41 (53.9) | 52 (59.1) | 8 (10.5) | 17 (19.3) | 4 (5.2) | 10 (11.3) | 2 (2.6) | 2 (2.2) | 15 | 19* | |||||
EN, enteral feeding; TPN, total parenteral feeding; No., number of; (), is percentage of total. *, statistically significant.