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A European center is conducting a study on the effectiveness of intestinal transplantation if other feeding methods fail!

When the primary intestine fails to perform its function of processing and absorbing nutrients inside the human body, it is agreed upon by many specialists in the field of digestive system and nutrition that the patient needs total nutrition through a feeding tube that is permanently placed in one of the main veins (TPN), then the process of starting Intestinal transplantation as one of the available solutions for such cases, and now many international centers are doing this process, and a study was recently published in the American Gastroenterology Journal, a study conducted in more than 14 European centers with follow-up of patients for three years, where the transplant operation worked for patients dependent on total nutrition By tube feeding (TPN) when their benefit from this method began to decrease significantly, and the study showed a slight improvement (4%) in the condition of patients and in the extent of their benefit from feeding and survival compared to the patient’s continued use of feeding tubes (TPN), noting that The operation, as everyone knows, carries many risks, as the patient needs to remain on a group of immunosuppressive drugs in order to accept this transplanted organ.

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