New Insights Into the Indications for Intestinal Transplantation: Consensus in the Year 2019.

ABSTRACT: In 2001, a Statement was published that described indications for intestinal transplantation in patients with intestinal failure expected to require parenteral nutrition indefinitely. Since 2001, advances in the management of intestinal failure including transplantation and patient survival, both on extended parenteral nutrition and after transplantation, have improved, leading to a reduction in the number of intestinal transplants worldwide from a peak of 270 per year in 2008 to 149 per year in 2017. These changes suggest that the original 2001 Statement requires reassessment. All patients with permanent intestinal failure should be managed by dedicated multidisciplinary intestinal rehabilitation teams. Under care of these teams, patients should be considered for intestinal transplantatio

SUBMITTER: Kaufman SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8384045 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature