Intestinal transplantation
Mine Ün1, Oytun Erbaş2
1Istanbul Aydın University Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
2Department of Physiology, Demiroğlu Bilim University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Keywords: Intestinal failure, intestinal transplantation, solid organ transplantation
Abstract
Although intestinal transplantation has become a standard in treating intestinal failure today, it has faced significant challenges up to this point. Intestinal transplantation, which is relatively more complicated and has higher likelihood of rejection compared to other solid organ transplantations such as the liver, kidneys, and heart, has gone a long way since the 1900s and has achieved successful results.
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