If eating becomes too hazardous or uncomfortable, the option of using a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy is available.

Tube placement may also be done by percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, or surgical jejunostomy.

Enteral nutrition by nasogastric feeding, gastrointestinal, gastrojejunostomy, or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes.

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (feeding tube placement)

"It's an acronym for Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy.

One type is the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube which is placed endoscopically.

Gastrostomy (also see percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy)

If swallowing is still deemed unsafe, then a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube is passed and this can remain indefinitely.

It can be performed through surgical approach, percutaneous approach by interventional radiology, or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG).

Terri was eventually switched from being fed by a nasogastric feeding tube to a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding tube.

The first percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy performed on a child was on June 12, 1979 at the Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, University Hospitals of Cleveland.

Beer KT, Krause KB, Zuercher T, et al.: Early percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion maintains nutritional state in patients with aerodigestive tract cancer.

An intake of 3500-4000 calories, and at least 150 g of protein per day, is often given in liquid form through a tube directly into the stomach (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy), or through a drip into a vein (parenteral nutrition).

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy is an endoscopic medical procedure in which a tube (PEG tube) is passed into a patient's stomach through the abdominal wall, most commonly to provide a means of feeding when oral intake is not adequate.

The caloric intake of children with RSS must be carefully controlled in order to provide the best opportunity for growth, if the child is unable to tolerate oral feeding then enteral feeding may be used, such as the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.

But because the PEG tubes (for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) are surgically implanted and stick out of the stomach just below the breastbone, confused patients sometimes panic and pull them out and end up drugged or tied down to keep the tubes in place.

In the case of advanced dysphagia, food can be supplied by a nasogastric tube, which is a tube that goes through the nose directly to the stomach; or a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), which is a procedure for placing a tube into the stomach and therefore administering food directly to it.