Psychiatric disorders in patients undergoing intestinal transplantation.

Background: Psychiatric disorders are common in chronic disease states; intestinal transplantation recipients may therefore be at high risk for psychiatric disorder (PD). We sought to investigate the frequency and type of PD in our cohort of patients undergoing transplantation between 2007 and 2012.

Results: The notes of 25 patients who had undergone transplantations since 2007 were available for analysis.

Prothrombotic disorders in a cohort of 25 patients undergoing transplantation: investigation and management implications.

Background: Many patients referred for intestinal transplantation have a history of thrombosis. We undertook an analysis of transplanted patients to describe the history and frequency of thrombosis, clinical course, and management strategies used.

Results: Twenty-five patients underwent transplantation of intestine containing blocks between 2007 and 2012; 20 of 25 are still alive.

Adult small intestinal and multivisceral transplantation: lessons through the "retrospecto-scope" at a single UK centre from 1991 to 2013.

The first intestinal transplantation in the United Kingdom was performed in Cambridge in 1991. Thirty-eight intestinal transplantations have since been performed in 35 patients. All deaths in the first postoperative month related to hemorrhage, in 2 cases to severe portal hypertension (SPH) and poor venous access in 2.