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CASE REPORT article
Front. Nutr.
Sec. Clinical Nutrition
Volume 12 - 2025 |
doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1514980
This article is part of the Research Topic The Relationship between Nutrition and Frailty/Multimorbidity: Prevention and Clinical Nutritional Management View all 6 articles
Title：Enteral nutritional support for an elderly critically ill patient with gastroesophageal reflux disease and situs inversus totalis: a case report
Provisionally accepted- Department of Critical Care Medical, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Herein, we present a case of serious protein-energy malnutrition in an elderly critically ill patient with situs inversus totalis. It was difficult to implement enteral nutrition in this patient for more than two months stay in another hospital, and we applied electromagnetic navigation guidance to implement enteral nutrition after successful placement of nasojejunal tubes. We reviewed the management of enteral nutrition support.
Keywords: Situs inversus totalis, Gastroesophageal reflux disease, Malnutrition, Enteral Nutrition, case report
Received: 22 Oct 2024; Accepted: 07 Feb 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Jia Wan, Department of Critical Care Medical, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Haiyan Huang, Department of Critical Care Medical, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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