Anesthesia for Intestinal Transplantation

Publication date: Available online 5 July 2017
Source:Anesthesiology Clinics
Author(s): Christine Nguyen-Buckley, Melissa Wong

Teaser

The diagnosis of irreversible intestinal failure confers significant morbidity, mortality, and decreased quality of life. Patients with irreversible intestinal failure may be treated with intestinal transplantation. Intestinal transplantation may include intestine only, liver–intestine, or other visceral elements. Intestinal transplantation candidates present with systemic manifestations of intestinal failure requiring multidisciplinary evaluation at an intestinal transplantation center. Central access may be difficult in intestinal transplantation candidates. Intestinal transplantation is a complex operation with potential for hemodynamic and metabolic instability. Patient and graft survival are improving, but graft failure remains the most common postoperative complication.


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