| Summary: | <b>Background</b>: To date, no studies comparing complication rates between patients with nutritional percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (N-PEG) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with percutaneous endoscopic gastro-jejunostomy (JET-PEG) for treatment administration have been published. Our study aimed to compare complication rates and the number of re-endoscopies between N-PEG and JET-PEG patients. <b>Methods</b>: Individuals requiring N-PEG or JET-PEG insertion between 2014 and 2021 were included in this single-center retrospective observational study. Complications were divided into time-related medical and technical complications. Reasons for post-insertion re-endoscopies and their number were also analyzed. <b>Results</b>: Eighty-seven subjects, 47 (54.02%) in JET-PEG group and 40 (45.98%) in the N-PEG group, were included. Early and technical complications were more frequent in JET-PEG vs. N-PEG subjects (70% vs. 10% [<i>p</i> < 0.001], and 54.5% vs. 5.1% [<i>p</i> < 0.001], respectively). The presence of psychiatric disease was associated with a higher number of early complications (<i>p</i> < 0.002). All three types of complications were significantly more frequent in subjects where a healthcare professional did not handle PEG (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Subjects with JET-PEG required a higher number of re-endoscopies compared to the N-PEG group (57.1% vs. 35%, <i>p</i> = 0.05). <b>Conclusions</b>: Complications are significantly more common in individuals with JET-PEG than those with N-PEG, which can be attributed to higher mobility in PD patients.
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