VIth international small bowel transplant symposium
Incidence, timing, and histologic grade of acute rejection in small bowel transplant recipients

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Methods

A retrospective review was performed of all intestinal transplant recipients at the University of Nebraska Medical Center between September 1990 and April 1999. Demographic information was collected from hospital and office charts. Acute rejection episodes were identified by reviewing all pathology reports from intestinal transplant biopsies. Intestinal transplant recipients underwent protocol endoscopic biopsies twice weekly for the first 4 to 6 weeks after transplantation and with decreasing

Results

Small bowel transplantation was performed in 83 recipients, including isolated small bowel grafts in 35 patients and combined liver small bowel grafts in 48 patients. Eight recipients with patient or graft survival less than 7 days were excluded from further analysis. The demographic characteristics of these remaining 75 patients are summarized in Table 1.

A total of 196 episodes of acute rejection of the small bowel allograft were identified in 65 of the 75 intestinal transplant recipients

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  • Sudan DL, Kaufman SS, Shaw BW Jr, et al: Am J Gastroenterol (in...

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