title: Current management of the short bowel syndrome.
abstract: Short bowel syndrome is a challenging clinical problem that benefits from a multidisciplinary approach. Much progress has recently been made in all aspects of management. Medical intestinal rehabilitation should be the initial treatment focus, and several new potential pharmacologic agents are being investigated. Surgical rehabilitation using nontransplant procedures in selected patients may further improve intestinal function. Intestinal lengthening procedures are particularly promising. Intestinal transplantation has increasingly been used with improving success in patients with life-threatening complications of intestinal failure.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Nebraska Medical Center, 983280 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-3280, USA. jthompso@unmc.edu
authors.forename: Jon S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weseman
authors.forename: Fedja A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Rochling
authors.forename: David F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Mercer
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006801:Humans; D007408:Intestinal Absorption; D007422:Intestines / Q000637:transplantation; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009752:Nutritional Status; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D012778:Short Bowel Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*