Objective Malnutrition is common in patients with esophageal cancer, resulting in increased
postoperative complications and mortality. Although preoperative immunonutrition can …

Background Perioperative enteral immunonutrition is thought to reduce postoperative
morbidity in patients undergoing major gastrointestinal surgery. This study assessed the …

Purpose: Perioperative enteral nutrition supports are recommended in esophagus cancer
patients. Immunonutrition contains immuno-enhancing nutrients in addition to standard …

Major gastrointestinal surgery is associated with immune suppression and a high risk of
postoperative complications. The aim of this open, randomized controlled trial was to …

Background To demonstrate whether a nutritional supplement enriched with arginine,
nucleotides, omega-3 fatty acids, and extra virgin olive oil reduces postoperative …

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of standard and immunomodulating enteral
nutrition on the clinical outcomes of the patients undergoing major abdominal cancer …

Gastric cancer is one of the most common upper gastrointestinal malignancies. To date,
enteral immunonutrition (EIN) has gained increasing attention as it is found to effectively …

Background: Immune modulating nutrition (IMN) has been shown to reduce complications
after major surgery, but strong evidence to recommend its routine use is still lacking …

Abstract In 1994, Dr. Gianotti and I met Prof. Daly in New York and we speculated that,
because impairment of the host defense mechanisms occurs immediately after surgery …

To elucidate the effects of parenteral nutrition on the immunocompetence, we administrated
parenteral nutritional support to the malnourished gastric cancer patients during …