A stoma is an opening made in the skin in front of your neck to allow you to breathe. The opening is made at the base of your neck. Air goes in and out of your windpipe (trachea) and lungs through ...

The symptoms persisted, and she could not be adequately fed so we performed a jejunostomy as a Roux-Y-Anastomosis in the stoma. It was then possible to feed her this way. However, oral intake remained ...

Diagnosis High-output stoma with malabsorption as a consequence ... A year later, the patient's loop jejunostomy was closed and an end ileostomy fashioned, bringing an additional 35 cm of small ...

[6] In general, patients with a jejunostomy and less than 100 cm of ... sodium and water losses through the stoma are greater. For such patients it is often quicker and simpler to keep them ...