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Intestinal transplantation in children: current status.
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This article reviews the current state of pediatric intestinal transplantation, highlighting significant improvements in first-year graft survival (76%) driven by advances in surgical techniques and immunosuppressive therapies. It addresses IT as a specialized treatment for children with intestinal failure.
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Intestinal transplantation (IT) is the least common form of organ transplantation; however, it has shown exceptional growth and improvement in graft survival rates over the past two decades mainly due to better outcomes achieved during the first year of transplantation (76 % at 1 year), due to improvement in surgical techniques and the development of better immunosupressive therapies as we underst…
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