Update on intestinal rehabilitation after intestinal transplantation

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-273

  Gupte, Girish L ^a   Beath, Susan V ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intestinal rehabilitation; Intestinal transplantation; Nutrition; Rejection; Small bowel transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; TACROLIMUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CHYLOUS ASCITES; ENTERIC FEEDING; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FLUID BALANCE; FOOD ALLERGY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE GRAFT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LYMPHOMA; METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VIRAL GASTROENTERITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ADAPTATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; ENTEROPATHY; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SMALL INTESTINE; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; KIDNEY DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS DISEASES; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 67651047142     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32832ac0f5     Document Type: Review

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