Terapia nutricional enteral em pacientes oncológicos: uma revisão da literatura

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Araújo, Fabine Faria Silva, C. C. G. Fortes, Renata Costa
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Objetivo: Avaliar o impacto da terapia nutricional enteral sobre o estado nutricional de pacientes oncologicos hospitalizados. Metodos: Pesquisa nas bases de dados Medline, Lilacs, NCBI, Capes, Scielo, Google scholar e Cochrane, com enfase nos ultimos 10 anos, nos idiomas ingles e portugues, referente a terapia nutricional enteral empacientes com câncer, utilizando-se os descritores: desnutricao hospitalar, estado nutricional, terapia nutricional enteral, anorexia-caquexia e câncer. Foram selecionados ensaios clinicos randomizados e controlados, seguidos de tratamento estatistico com significância de p ≤ 0,05. Resultados: Observou-se, por meio da literatura, que a terapia nutricional enteral, utilizada com o intuito de recuperar o estado nutricional de individuos debilitados, pode ser determinante na melhora do prognostico de pacientes oncologicos hospitalizados, visto que a desnutricao e um achado comum, o que acarreta maior tempo de internacao, maior incidencia de complicacoes pre e pos-operatorias e elevada mortalidade. Conclusao: Os estudos analisados demonstraram que a terapia nutricional enteral e capaz de melhorar significativamente o estado nutricional de pacientes oncologicos e, consequentemente, o prognostico dos mesmos. Objective: To evaluate the impact of enteral nutrition therapy on the nutritional state of hospitalized cancer patients. Methods: Research in the Medline, Lilacs, NCBI, Capes, Scielo, Google scholar and Cochrane databases, with emphasis on the last 10 years, in English and Portuguese, on the enteral nutrition therapy in patients with cancer, by using the following descriptors: hospital malnutrition, nutritional state, enteral nutrition therapy, anorexia, cachexia and cancer. It selected randomized and controlled clinical experiments, followed by treatment with statistical significance of p ≤ 0.05. Results: We observed, through literature, that enteral nutrition therapy, used in order to recover the nutritional state of individuals debilitated, can be crucial on improving the prognostic of cancer patients hospitalized considering that malnutrition is a common finding, resulting in increased time of hospitalization, higher incidence of pre and postoperative complications and high mortality rates. Conclusion: Studies examined showed that enteral nutrition therapy is able to significantly improve the nutritional state of cancer patients and, therefore, their prognostic.
Starting Page	61
Ending Page	70
Page Count	10
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Volume Number	19
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.escs.edu.br/pesquisa/revista/2008Vol19_1art07terapianuticional.pdf
Language	English
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