Abstract
[Aim] Our previous study reported that taste was restrained in patients with gastrointestinal malignant disease, and taste was restrained more in patients who underwent gastric resection as compared to in patients who underwent large bowel resection. Based on our previous study results, influences of surgical stress, nitrogen balance and anthropometric measurements were explored.
[Materials and Methods] Taste threshold, score of surgical stress, nitrogen balance and anthropometric measurements were evaluated after surgery in 20 patients [11 underwent gastric resection (group 1) and 9 underwent large bowel resection (group 2)].
[Results] Reduction of anthropometric measurements and catabolic effects were larger, and score of surgical stress was greater in group 1 than in group 2. Postoperative taste was restrained relevantly to reduction of anthropometric measurements, nitrogen loss and high surgical stress score.
[Conclusion] Prolonged and larger deterioration of taste in patients who underwent gastric resection was linked to a long catabolic period caused by greater surgical aggression.
