Short Bowel Syndrome and Kidney Transplantation: Challenges, Outcomes, and the Use of Teduglutide

Among patients with short bowel syndrome who commonly have kidney disease, kidney transplantation remains challenging. We describe the clinicopathologic course of a 59-year old man with short bowel syndrome secondary to Crohn’s disease who underwent a deceased donor kidney transplant that was compli...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Abou Diwan, Ankit B. Patel, Alex G. Cuenca, Nahel Elias, Hannah M. Gilligan, Eliot Heher, David E. Leaf, David Wojciechowski, Kassem Safa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2020-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Transplantation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8819345