Treatment of upper gastrointestinal fistula and leakage with personal stage nutrition support

Table 1 Levels of Alb, TSF and pre-Alb at different time points in the two groups (mean ± SD)

Time	Alb (g/L)			TSF (g/L)			Pre-Alb (mg/L)
	A	B	P	A	B	P	A	B	P
1 d before treatment	40 ± 2.1	39 ± 3.2	0.11	3.51 ± 0.17	3.49 ± 0.14	0.78	340 ± 51	341 ± 28	0.64
1 d after treatment	39 ± 3.6	37 ± 2.5	0.06	3.27 ± 0.26	3.18 ± 0.21	0.26	327 ± 43	308 ± 19	0.15
15 d after treatment	37 ± 2.7	35 ± 3.5	0.05	3.20 ± 0.33	2.98 ± 0.25	0.45	321 ± 37	271 ± 21	0.001
30 d after treatment	38 ± 3.8	33 ± 3.2	0.001	3.28 ± 0.35	2.77 ± 0.22	0.001	325 ± 24	236 ± 17	0.001

Table 2 Nitrogen balance between the two groups at different time points (mean ± SD)

Time	Nitrogen balance (g)
	A	B	P
1 d before treatment	-10 ± 3.6	-8 ± 4.1	0.17
1 d after treatment	-11 ± 2.1	-9 ± 4.5	0.81
15 d after treatment	2 ± 2.9	2 ± 3.1	0.95
30 d after treatment	6 ± 4.2	5 ± 4.8	0.51

Table 3 Liver function of patients in the two groups at different time points (mean ± SD)

Time	AST (U/L)			ALT (U/L)			T bill (mol/L)
	A	B	P	A	B	P	A	B	P
1 d before treatment	26 ± 2.2	27 ± 1.9	0.27	27 ± 1.9	26 ± 1.6	0.85	15 ± 1.6	14 ± 1.8	0.68
1 d after treatment	28 ± 2.4	29 ± 2.6	0.31	29 ± 2.3	30 ± 2.4	0.24	18 ± 2.1	19 ± 2.4	0.14
15 d after treatment	42 ± 3.5	44 ± 3.1	0.07	52 ± 1.8	60 ± 1.5	0.001	30 ± 1.4	32 ± 2.6	0.004
30 d after treatment	35 ± 3.3	63 ± 3.6	0.001	36 ± 2.7	65 ± 2.3	0.001	26 ± 3.7	48 ± 3.1	0.001

Table 4 Complications, hospitalized time and cost of the two groups

	A (n = 20)	B (n = 20)	P
Stoma fistula	0	2
Infection of incisional wound	0	3
Abdominal distension	2	0
Diarrhoea	1	0
Infection of abdominal cavity	1	1
Total incidence rate (%)	20%(4/20)	30%(6/20)	0.53
Average stay (d)	40 ± 2.6	50 ± 3.7	0.001
Average expenditure(10 thousand yuan)	2.3 ± 0.5	3.9 ± 0.8	0.001