Laparoscopy-assisted percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy enables enteral nutrition even in patients with distorted anatomy

Table 1 Patients’ characteristics, the reasons for L-percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, the length of the procedures, the nutritional statuses before and after L-percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

No.	Gender	Age (yr)	Reason of LAPEG	BMI before the procedure/albumin concentration (g/dL)	BMI after 12 mo follow up	Time from insertion of the gastroscope to the peg placement (total operation length)/min	Time form insertion laparoscope to removal of the laparoscope/min
1	F	7	Tay-Sachs disease	11.9/2.9	14.5	22	16
2	M	5	drug-resistant epilepsy	13.9/3.9	15.2	17	13
3	M	15	cerebral palsy	13.2/4.5	15.2	15	9
4	F	3	Patau syndrome	13.8/5.1	16.0	21	12
5	M	17	cerebral palsy	12.6/3.3	18.4	24	14
6	M	11	cerebral palsy	13.2/3.7	17.1	22	9
7	F	22	Wilson’s disease	12.0/28	13.5	21	17
8	F	31.5	Gaucher’s disease	14.5/29.5	14.5	18	12
9	M	26.2	cerebral palsy	15.5/27.0	15.2	16	8
10	F	33.2	SLA	14.0/25.0	17.0	12	11
11	F	34	SLA	11.0/2.3	14.5	14	11
12	F	24.7	cerebral palsy	11.5/2.9	15.0	13	7

BMI: Body mass index; LAPEG: LA-percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy; SLA: Amyothropic later sclerosis; M: Male; F: Female.