Yan-Zhong Zhang

Perioperative immunonutrition in gastrointestinal malignancies: Clinical benefit, patient selection, and current uncertainties.

Patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal malignancies may present with malnutrition, systemic inflammation, immune dysfunction, and impaired intestinal barrier function, all of which can increase susceptibility to postoperative infection and delayed recovery. Perioperative immunonutrition involves the administr...