Open AccessTransplantation of an eight-organ multivisceral graft in a patient with frozen abdomen after complicated Crohn’s disease
Author(s) -
Andreas Pascher,
J Klupp,
Sven Köhler,
Jan M. Langrehr,
P. Neuhaus
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v12.i27.4431
Subject(s) - medicine , abdomen , tacrolimus , surgery , transplantation , immunosuppression , crohn's disease , ascending colon , greater omentum , kidney , kidney transplantation , gastroenterology , disease
To report an extended multivisceral transplantation (MVTx) including right kidney and ascending colon in a patient with complicated Crohn's disease (CD). A 36-year old female suffering from short bowel syndrome and frozen abdomen due to fistulizing CD after multiple abdominal operations underwent MVTx of eight organs including stomach, pancreatoduodenal complex, liver, intestine, ascending colon, right kidney, right adrenal gland, and greater omentum in November 2003. Immunosuppression consisted of alemtuzumab, tacrolimus and steroids. The patient was off parenteral nutrition by postoperative wk 3. She experienced one episode of pneumonia. The patient recovered completely and discharged 2.5 mo and was doing well 30 mo after MVTx. This is one of the very rare cases in which a complete mulitivisceral graft of eight abdominal organs was transplanted orthotopically.