Compared with preoperative gastric emptying, early postoperative gastric emptying for liquid food after oesophagectomy is significantly faster. Postoperative early oral feeding in patients with thoracolaparoscopic oesophagectomy is feasible and safe.
Background: The aim of the current study was to investigate the impact of early oral feeding (EOF) on inflammatory cytokine levels after McKeown minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) for cancer Methods: This study was based on a randomized controlled trial (NCT01998230). Patients with esophageal cancer who received McKeown MIE were randomly allocated into a group that started oral feeding on postoperative day (POD) 1 (EOF group) or a second group that received nil by mouth until 7 days after surgery (late oral feeding, LOF group). We chose 86 patients, including 46 patients in the EOF group and 40 patients in the LOF group, in which to analyze inflammatory cytokine levels (interleukin-6, IL-6; interleukin-8, IL-8; tumor necrosis factor-a, TNF-α; and monocyte chemotactic protein-1, MCP-1).
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