Fifteen years' experience of intestinal and multivisceral transplantation in the Nordic countries.

• Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation have gained acceptance as treatment modalities for patients with: intestinal failure and life-threatening complications of parenteral nutrition (PN), rare cases of vascular abdominal catastrophes and selected cases of low-grade neoplastic tumors such as neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors and desmoids involving the mesenteric root. The aim was to describe the survival and nutritional outcome in the transplanted Nordic patients and the complications attributed to this procedure.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Kirurgi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Surgery (hsv//eng)

Keyword

allograft rejection

graft versus host disease

intestinal failure

intestinal transplantation

Liver-containing allograft

multivisceral transplantation

neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors

parenteral nutrition

post transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)