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receive a feeding tube – known as a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, or PEG tube – and undergo an EGD, which can diagnose stomach ulcers. That treatment, it turned out, had been prescribed ...

Other times, we may administer enteral nutrition through an NG (nasogastric) tube that’s inserted through the nose into the stomach; or a PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) tube ...

Background: Since it was described in 1980, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has been a widely used method for insertion of a gastrostomy tube in patients who are unable to swallow or ...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement was also undertaken in a patient who was in the terminal period and who was unable to feed orally because of persistent vomiting secondary to ...

This is also known as a PEG tube (percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy tube), or G-tube. People with a gastrostomy tube can be taught to feed themselves and care for their surgical opening at home.