La finalidad de esta revisión bibliográfica es examinar la evidencia científica más reciente sobre el efecto y los reales beneficios, en la recuperación postoperatoria, de la inmunonutrición enteral respecto a las fórmulas estándar, en pacientes que padecen cáncer de cabeza y cuello, sometidos a cirugía electiva. Las principales fuentes bibliográficas de elevado impacto científico, se han rescatado a partir de bases de datos como Medline, PubMed, Biblioteca Cochrane, Elsevier, Scielo y principales sociedades médicas oncológicas como: SEOM, NIH y guías clínicas como ESPEN. Existe una gran heterogeneidad entre los resultados examinados de las diferentes revisiones y metaanálisis, sobre el efecto de la inmunonutrición en las complicaciones postoperatorias. En general, los hallazgos indican un beneficio en el uso de la inmunonutrición, sin embargo, para el cáncer de cabeza y cuello se basan en evidencia de calidad deficiente por numerosas limitaciones, por lo que la comunidad científica no ha encontrado todavía un consenso común. Una investigación más prolífica podría confirmar tales resultados con mayores beneficios para la supervivencia del paciente y, consecuentemente, una menor estancia hospitalaria, que gravaría menos en los costes del sistema sanitario.
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