Lacy Cornelius Boyd needed IV nutrition and an ileostomy bag after a devastating car crash. A rare transplant was her only ...

The international experience of small bowel transplantation since 1985 has been compiled and analyzed through the International Intestinal Transplant Registry. [10] As of May 2001, the Registry ...

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 ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS, IND — Indiana University Health celebrated two significant milestones – the 20th anniversary of the first successful intestine transplant surgery and the completion of 300 such surgeries ...

Intestinal transplantation is considered for patients with irreversible intestinal failure who are unable to tolerate long-term total parenteral nutrition, a condition associated with serious ...

Doctors have upended assumptions about a rare gut disorder by turning to one of medicine’s strangest tools, a transplant of ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Cynthia Cathey has been on an unimaginable journey ever since her newborn son was diagnosed with a rare condition called short bowel syndrome. It affects only 46 out of every 100 ...