Current Concepts of Intestinal Failure

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rintala, Risto J. (Editor), Pakarinen, Mikko (Editor), Wester, Tomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Abdominal surgery.; Surgery.; Pediatric surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pediatric Surgery.; Abdominal Surgery.; General Surgery.

This book provides readers with a succinct but comprehensive overview of current concepts relating to intestinal failure, including its treatment, with a particular focus on recent advancements. The opening chapters address basic aspects of intestinal failure, including etiology, clinical pathophysi...

Table of Contents:

• Intestinal failure in children
• Short Bowel Syndrome-Intestinal Adaptation
• Bacterial Overgrowth and Intestinal Microbiome
• Intestinal failure-associated liver disease
• Recent Advances in Nutritional Care of Patients with Intestinal Failure
• Pharmacological improvement of bowel function and adaptation
• Modern Intestinal rehabilitation and outcomes
• Serial transverse enteroplasty
• Longitudinal intestinal lengthening
• Controlled tissue expansion
• Pediatric small bowel transplantation – an update
• Intestinal Regeneration
• distraction enterogenesis.