The performance of a full diagnostic upper endoscopy is imperative before PEG tube placement ... After this interval, PEG feedings can be initiated.

The decision to place a gastrostomy tube is a difficult one for many families. Discussions with parents can begin immediately after birth if the indication for a gastrostomy tube is clear.

When Dallas “Dally” Watts was diagnosed with heart failure at just 6 weeks old, her pediatric heart team at Atrium Health ...

His wife Steph Houghton has provided an update on her husband's health - saying he has been fitted with a feeding tube following a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. "You want Stephen to be ...

Families have spoken out after Ofsted identified “systemic failings” in Derbyshire County Council’s SEND provision – raising ...

who has confirmed he has undergone a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, which inserts a feeding tube into the patient’s stomach to provide nutritional support. Speaking to The Guardian ...

Sara eventually tried bottle feeding, but it wasn’t a lot better ... There is the blended food to feed through Josie’s PEG ...

His wife, Maheswari, has been in a coma for the past four years, a heartbreaking situation recently shared by their daughter, ...

A FORMER Premier League star battling motor neurone disease now has to eat through a tube after a "life ... health after he underwent a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. The ex-Lioness captain ...

Silvia and John had always dreamed of travelling around Australia when they retired. Then their world was turned upside down.

Due to the brain damage it was deemed "unsafe" for Bradley to swallow leading to him undergoing PEG surgery in April 2021, at ...