The transplantation of gastrointestinal organs.
Over a period of 33 years, it has become possible to successfully transplant individual intra-abdominal viscera or combinations of these organs. The consequences have been, first, new information about the metabolic interrelations that the visceral organs have in disease or health; second, the addition of several procedures to the treatment armamentarium of gastrointestinal diseases; and third, a more profound understanding of the means by which all whole organ grafts are accepted.
Starzl
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Pittsburgh Transplant Institute, University of Pittsburgh Health Science Center, Pennsylvania.
Todo
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Tzakis
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Fung
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D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy; D007422:Intestines / Q000637:transplantation*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D016035:Pancreas Transplantation