| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Patients with esophageal cancer who undergo esophagectomy are at an increased risk of recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis, which can result in nutritional deficiency. In perioperative nutritional management, nurses provide meals as per the swallowing capacity in accordance with the orders of the attending physician and conduct continuous monitoring. We retrospectively evaluated postesophagectomy nutrition management focused on body composition and nutritional status during the recovery period after esophagectomy. The results of nutritional assessment showed that serum albumin levels were low in both groups after surgery, which was possibly influenced by the increased inflammatory response owing to invasive surgery. Body fat can be reduced while maintaining skeletal muscle, as evidenced by the evaluation of body composition via Muscle-Fat Analysis of the HBMI group. This technique of body composition assessment may be useful for evaluating a patient’s nutritional status.
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