Carla Adriana Santos1, Jorge Fonseca2, Elisabete Carolino3, Teresa Lopes4, António Sousa Guerreiro5. 1. GENE - Enteral Feeding Team. Hospital García de Orta, Almada.. carla.adriana.santos@hotmail.com. 2. GENE - Enteral Feeding Team. Hospital García de Orta, Almada. CiiEM - Center for Interdisciplinary Research Egas Moniz, Almada.. jorgedafonseca@hotmail.com. 3. Departamento das Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Área Científica de Matemática. Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisboa.. carla.adriana.santos@hotmail.com. 4. CEDOC, NOVA Medical School. Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa.. carla.adriana.santos@hotmail.com. 5. CEDOC, NOVA Medical School. Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa. Unidade Funcional de Med 4. Hospital Santa Marta. Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Lisboa, Portugal.. carla.adriana.santos@hotmail.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) patients usually present protein-energy malnutrition, but little is known about selenium deficiency. We aimed to assess serum selenium evolution when patients underwent PEG, after 4 and 12 weeks. We also evaluated the evolution of albumin, transferrin and Body Mass Index and the influence of the nature of the underlying disease. METHODS: a blood sample was obtained before PEG (T0), after 4 (T1) and 12 (T3) weeks. Selenium was assayed using GFAAS (Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy). The PEG patients were fed through homemade meals. Patients were studied as a whole and divided into two groups: head and neck cancer (HNC) and neurological dysphagia (ND). RESULTS: we assessed 146 patients (89 males), between 21-95 years old: HNC-56; ND-90. Normal values of selenium in 79% (n=115); low albumin in 77, low transferrin in 94, low values for both serum proteins in 66. Low BMI in 78. Selenium has slow evolution, with most patients still displaying normal Selenium at T3 (82%). Serum protein levels increase from T0 to T3, most patients reaching normal values. The nature of the underlying disease is associated with serum proteins but not with selenium. CONCLUSIONS: low serum selenium is uncommon when PEG is performed, after 4 and 12 weeks of enteral feeding and cannot be related with serum proteins levels or dysphagia cause. Enteral nutrition using customized homemade kitchen meals is satisfactory to prevent or correct Selenium deficiency in the majority of PEG patients. Copyright AULA MEDICA EDICIONES 2014. Published by AULA MEDICA. All rights reserved.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) patients usually present protein-energy malnutrition, but little is known about selenium deficiency. We aimed to assess serum selenium evolution when patients underwent PEG, after 4 and 12 weeks. We also evaluated the evolution of albumin, transferrin and Body Mass Index and the influence of the nature of the underlying disease. METHODS: a blood sample was obtained before PEG (T0), after 4 (T1) and 12 (T3) weeks. Selenium was assayed using GFAAS (Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy). The PEGpatients were fed through homemade meals. Patients were studied as a whole and divided into two groups: head and neck cancer (HNC) and neurological dysphagia (ND). RESULTS: we assessed 146 patients (89 males), between 21-95 years old: HNC-56; ND-90. Normal values of selenium in 79% (n=115); low albumin in 77, low transferrin in 94, low values for both serum proteins in 66. Low BMI in 78. Selenium has slow evolution, with most patients still displaying normal Selenium at T3 (82%). Serum protein levels increase from T0 to T3, most patients reaching normal values. The nature of the underlying disease is associated with serum proteins but not with selenium. CONCLUSIONS: low serum selenium is uncommon when PEG is performed, after 4 and 12 weeks of enteral feeding and cannot be related with serum proteins levels or dysphagia cause. Enteral nutrition using customized homemade kitchen meals is satisfactory to prevent or correct Selenium deficiency in the majority of PEGpatients. Copyright AULA MEDICA EDICIONES 2014. Published by AULA MEDICA. All rights reserved.
Authors: Sara Lopes; Vitor Tavares; Paulo Mascarenhas; Marta Lopes; Carolina Cardote; Catarina Godinho; Cátia Oliveira; Carla Adriana Santos; Madalena Oom; José Grillo-Evangelista; Jorge Fonseca Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2022-04-15 Impact factor: 4.614