Status:

COMPLETED

Postoperative Oral Nutritional Supplementation After Major Gastrointestinal Surgery

Lead Sponsor:

Seoul National University Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

JW Pharmaceutical

Conditions:

Gastric Cancer

Colon Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

20-80 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Patients who underwent major gastrointestinal surgery is potentially at risk of malnutrition due to reduced oral intake, increased nutritional need, reduced gastrointestinal absorption function, and/o...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Male or female who are 20 or more years old and not more than 80 years old
  • Discharge from a hospital is planned within 2 weeks after major gastrointestinal surgery (except when ileostomy is performed)
  • oral intake is possible at the time of discharge
  • no preoperative chemotherapy or preoperative radiotherapy
  • voluntarily agreed with the informed consent of this clinical trial

Exclusion

  • Intravenous or other specific nutritional treatment is needed
  • BMI \>25 and postoperative weight loss is not \> 5% of preoperative body weight at the time of discharge
  • Allergy to milk, whey, bean, salmon, or the investigational product
  • Residual of cancer in the abdominal cavity postoperatively if it is cancer case
  • Presence of synchronous other cancers that needs treatment.
  • When investigator judged that the patient is not eligible to the trial

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

April 1 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

April 1 2014

Estimated Enrollment :

174 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01838109

Start Date

April 1 2013

End Date

April 1 2014

Last Update

May 27 2015

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Seoul National University Hospital

Seoul, South Korea