[en] BACKGROUND & AIMS: Severe alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a lifethreatening
disease for which adequate oral nutritional support
is recommended. We performed a randomized controlled trial to
determine whether the combination of corticosteroid and
intensive enteral nutrition therapy is more effective than corticosteroid
therapy alone in patients with severe AH. METHODS:
We enrolled 136 heavy consumers of alcohol (age, 18–75 y)
with recent onset of jaundice and biopsy-proven severe AH in
our study, performed at 18 hospitals in Belgium and 2 in
France, from February 2010 through February 2013. Subjects
were assigned randomly (1:1) to groups that received either
intensive enteral nutrition plus methylprednisolone or conventional
nutrition plus methylprednisolone (controls). In the
intensive enteral nutrition group, enteral nutrition was given
via feeding tube for 14 days. The primary end point was patient
survival for 6 months. RESULTS: In an intention-to-treat analysis,
we found no significant difference between groups in
6-month cumulative mortality: 44.4% of patients died in the
intensive enteral nutrition group (95% confidence interval [CI],
32.2%–55.9%) and 52.1% of controls died (95% CI, 39.4%–
63.4%) (P ¼ .406). The enteral feeding tube was withdrawn
prematurely from 48.5% of patients, and serious adverse
events considered to be related to enteral nutrition occurred in
5 patients. Regardless of group, a greater proportion of patients
with a daily calorie intake less than 21.5 kcal/kg/day died
(65.8%; 95% CI, 48.8–78.4) than patients with a higher intake
of calories (33.1%; 95% CI, 23.1%–43.4%) (P < .001).
CONCLUSIONS: In a randomized trial of patients with severe AH
treated with corticosteroids, we found that intensive enteral
nutrition was difficult to implement and did not increase survival.
However, low daily energy intake was associated with greater
mortality, so adequate nutritional intake should be a main goal for
treatment.
Disciplines :
Gastroenterology & hepatology
Author, co-author :
Moreno, C
Deltenre, P
Senterre, C
Louvet, A
Gustot, T
Bastens, B
Hittelet, A
Piquet, MA
Laleman, W
Orlent, H
Lasser, L
Sersté, T
Starkel, P
De Koninck, X
Negrin Dastis, S
DELWAIDE, Jean ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Service de gastroentérologie, hépatologie, onco. digestive
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