Material is taken from a donor, mixed with water, filtered and passed down a tube into the stomach.
Mr Betchley was admitted to hospital with breathing problems and was being fed by a tube into his stomach.
Mr Betchley was being fed by a tube into his stomach and could not take food or liquid orally, the hearing was told.
Boycott's illness was first diagnosed last September and at one stage the 63-year-old had to be fed via a tube into his stomach.
Daniel Harrison, who is four-and-a-half, has refused to eat or drink for most of his life and so is fed through a tube in his stomach.
The 38-year-old spent years caring for her seriously ill daughter Emily, 10, who was born with heart problems and had to be fed through a tube in her stomach.
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Before Daniel went to the clinic in Graz, he had to be fed through a tube in his stomach and would also not allow his parents to brush his teeth.
Rita Nursing Home just this weekend we found another body who we think is a nursing home patient, a lady who had a feeding tube in her stomach, " Charles Foti Jr. told CNN's "American Morning.
Unable to swallow, she was fed through a tube inserted into her stomach.
Many patients opt for less-aggressive surgical approaches, including an adjustable gastric band (which can be reversed) that forms a pouch in the stomach, or a sleeve gastrectomy, in which a portion of the stomach is removed, leaving a tube for food to pass through.
They are fed through a 24-hour g-tube surgically placed in their stomach.
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The milk can be delivered through a tube into the baby's stomach, says Alan R.
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The surgery inserted a silicone tube around Mr. Christie's stomach to help him restrict his food consumption.
The fibroblasts are grown in a test tube and then implanted into tissue near the stomach.
If there are problems, the patient can be fed by mouth, by a tube going into the nose and down to the stomach, or directly into the stomach.
They fill that tube with saline, squeezing the size of the entry into the stomach even more so you can eat even less.
In that procedure, doctors put a silicone tube, which is like a big rubber band, around the top of your stomach, restricting the amount of food you can take in.
By swallowing a tube which had a slicer thing on the end of it, they could see my stomach was in a sorry state.
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