Woman gets her life back after rare transplant: "Prepared for the worst"

Lacy Cornelius Boyd needed IV nutrition and an ileostomy bag after a devastating car crash. A rare transplant was her only ...
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Advances in Intestinal Transplantation: Report From the VII International Small Bowel Transplant Symposium

Intestinal transplantation is primarily performed not to improve QoL, but as a life-saving procedure in TPN-dependent patients with life-threatening complications. However, because the results of ...
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Doctors shock world after curing rare gut disorder with bizarre transplant

Doctors have upended assumptions about a rare gut disorder by turning to one of medicine’s strangest tools, a transplant of ...
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Patient in Indiana's first intestinal transplant comes back to thank doctors

INDIANAPOLIS — Twenty years ago, a 2-year-old boy became the first intestinal transplant patient at Riley Hospital for Children. Friday, David Peck and his mother came back to IU Health, celebrating ...

KFSHRC Advances Intestinal Transplantation Care Through a Specialized National Program

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre continues to advance complex transplant medicine through its Intestinal Transplant Program, a highly specialized service designed to manage patients ...
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Advances in Intestinal Transplantation: Report From the VII International Small Bowel Transplant Symposium

This series consisted of 5 patients who received isolated intestine transplantation. Of interest in these 5 cases was the novel procurement technique used, which allowed the donor pancreas to be ...