Radiological gastrostomy - survival

Author

Martin Hennessy

Published

March 13, 2026


Survival

All procedures

  • Survival after gastrostomy is shown in the Kaplan-Meier chart, below:
Ignoring unknown labels:
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Survival by diagnosis

  • Those data can be divided into the seven main diagnostic categories:
Ignoring unknown labels:
• colour : "Diagnosis"

Median survival

  • Median survival (and 95% confidence intervals) can be tabulated, as below:
Diagnosis Procedures Median survival (days) 95% CIs
All 1,232 474 ( 424 - 533 )
ENT 611 549 ( 466 - 669 )
MND 184 254 ( 215 - 306 )
CVA 132 486 ( 295 - 907 )
INJ 83 1,076 ( 659 - NA )
NEU 89 797 ( 451 - 1351 )
UNK 80 593 ( 370 - 1248 )
OES 53 279 ( 206 - 408 )

30 day survival

All procedures

  • 30 day survival after gastrostomy is shown in the Kaplan-Meier chart, below:
Ignoring unknown labels:
• colour : ""

Survival by diagnosis

  • Those data can be divided into the seven main diagnostic categories:
Ignoring unknown labels:
• colour : "Diagnosis"


Abbreviations used above are as follows:

  • ENT: ear, nose and throat cancers and their management
  • MND: motor neurone disease
  • CVA: stroke
  • OES: oesophageal disease
  • NEU: other neurodegenerative diseases
  • INJ: traumatic brain and spine injuries
  • UNK: the remaining miscellaneous or un-diagnosed conditions

Numbers

Method

Demography

30 day mortality

Survival

Monthly mortality variation


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