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The effect of postoperative 3 month home enteral nutrition on health related quality of life and nutritional status of esophageal cancer patients after receiving Ivor Lewis minimally invasive esophagectomy.

Home enteral nutrition after minimally invasive esophagectomy can improve patients’ quality of life and reduce the risk of malnutrition.

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN63015230
Enrollment
140
Registered
2016-03-01
Start date
2014-01-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2019-02-11

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Nutritional support after esophagectomy Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine

Interventions

Initially, patients were randomly allocated to receive one of the following: 1. MIE group: minimally invasive Ivor Lewis esophagectomy and home enteral nutrition. In this group, patien
the trial was therefore non-randomized.

Sponsors

Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Diagnosed with esophageal and esophagogastric junction cancer 2. Deemed suitable for potentially curative resection with intrathoracic anastomosis

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients with unresectable tumors 2. Patient older than 80 years old 3. Patients that needed cervical incision and anastomosis

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
1. The nutritional status, measured using the PG-SGA standard questionnaire, BMI, Albumin and Hemoglobin within 3 days prior to surgery, 2 weeks and 3 months after operation 2. Quality of life, measured using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORCT) general quality of life questionnaire (QLQ-C30) within 3 days prior to surgery, 2 weeks and 3 months after operation

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
1. Outcomes for different surgical procedures , measured using the total hospital stay, time in the ICU, morbidity and mortality within 30 days 2. Pain after surgery, measured using visual analogue score (VAS) until day 3 after surgery 3. Complications after surgery, measured using pneumonia, chylothorax, vocal-cord paralysis, wound infection needing reoperation, anastomotic leakages, cardiac insufficiency, ileus need stop enteral nutrition and jejunostomy site enterocutaneous fistula 4. Pathological results, measured using pathological tumor-node-metastasis classification, resection and circumferential margins and the number of lymph nodes retrieved

Countries

China

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026