[Artificial therapeutic feeding in esophageal surgery].

Manifestations of the protein-energy deficiency were studied in 150 patients with burn strictures of the esophagus, and the ways of their correction by means of artificial therapeutic feeding were analysed. It was shown, that inclusion of an adequate artificial nutrition diet into the preoperative medication allows for preoperative normalization of the patient's nutritional status and thus for a significant improvement of postoperative results.