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Intestinal twin-to-twin transplant for short gut: Review of the literature and discussion of a complex case.

Pediatr Med Chir

October 2022

Paediatric Surgery Unit, A. Meyer Children's Hospital of Florence, Italy; Department of NEUROFARBA, University of Florence.

Paediatric Intestinal Transplantation (IT) presents the highest mortality on the waiting-list due to anatomical disproportion. Living-Donor IT (LDIT) offers the best advantages and when performed among identical monozygotic twins, it also benefits from unique immunology. According to MEDLINE/Pubmed, twin-to-twin LDIT has been performed in seven cases (6:7 males, median age of 32 years).

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