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Intestinal Rehabilitation Programs in the Management of Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Short Bowel Syndrome.

J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr

November 2017

*Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA †Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL ‡Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA §Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL ||Icahn School of Medicine, Valley Health System, Ridgewood, NJ ¶Washington University School of Medicine #St Louis Children's Hospital, One Children's Place, St Louis, MO **Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

Intestinal failure is a rare, debilitating condition that presents both acute and chronic medical management challenges. The condition is incompatible with life in the absence of the safe application of specialized and individualized medical therapy that includes surgery, medical equipment, nutritional products, and standard nursing care. Intestinal rehabilitation programs are best suited to provide such complex care with the goal of achieving enteral autonomy and oral feeding with or without intestinal transplantation.

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