1. Follow-up and survival after gastrostomy indication in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Marion Vergonjeanne, Philippe Couratier, Géraldine Lautrette, Pierre Jésus, H. Sourisseau, Philippe Fayemendy, N. Calmel, P.M. Preux, Jean Claude Desport, Service d'Hépato-Gastro-Entérologie et Nutrition [CHU Limoges], CHU Limoges, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale (NET), CHU Limoges-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Service de Neurologie [CHU Limoges], Service de l'Information Médicale et de l'Évaluation [CHU Limoges] (SIME), Laboratoire de Biostatistique et d'Informatique Médicale, and Université de Limoges (UNILIM)
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International audience; Rationale: In Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), gastrostomy is indicated when the weight loss is over 10%, in case of repeated aspirations and if the meal time duration is over 45 min. The benefit of gastrostomy on survival in ALS is unclear and its placement is probably too late. The main works on the subject studied survival from diagnosis but not from indication of gastrostomy. The aims of our work were in ALS patients with indication of gastrostomy and who accepted or refused gastrostomy to study from the indication of gastrostomy to the last assessment or death i) the evolution of nutritional and neurological status and ii) the survival.Methods: ALS patients included started follow-up in the referral ALS centre in 2006 and were all dead at 31 december 2017. They had assessment of their neurological (onset form, ALS functional rating scale revised [ALSFRS-R]), nutritional (weight, weight loss, body mass index and body composition by bioelectrical impedancemetry analysis) and respiratory status (forced vital capacity, non-invasive ventilation [NIV]). Statistical analysis was done by using Mann-Whitney test, Chi2 tests, Kaplan-Meier with Log-rank and Cox model for multivariate survival analysis. Results were expressed as median (interquartile range).Results: One hundred and fifty-five patients with indication of gastrostomy were included, 68.4% had accepted the gastrostomy placement. The median delay diagnosis-gastrostomy indication and gastrostomy indication-last assessment were 5.1 months (2.3 – 12.5) and 8.7 months (4.2 – 12.3), respectively. Patient who accepted gastrostomy were less often male (42.5% vs. 63.3%, p= 0.016) and had more often bulbar onset (57.6% vs. 26.5%, p=0.0003). Nutritional status and body composition at indication and at last assessment were not significantly different in patients with or without gastrostomy. At last assessment, in patient with gastrostomy ALSFRS-R was lower (14.0 points [10.8 – 22.0] vs. 20.5 points [12.8 – 26.3], p=0.01). Since gastrostomy indication median survival was higher in patient who accepted gastrostomy (10.3 months [6.7 – 17.5] vs 7.9 month [4.2 – 10.5], p=0.01). Gastrostomy was negatively associated with the risk of death in univariate analysis (HR: 0.64, p=0.01), but not in multivariate analysis. In multivariate analysis, weight loss (-1%/month) and ALSFRS-R slope (-1point/month) during follow-up were positively associated with the risk of death (aHR: 1.62; p=0.0002 and aHR: 2.37; p
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- 2020
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