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Pediatric Intestine (Small Bowel) Transplants

Pediatric intestine transplants at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has played an important role in the rapid progress of intestinal transplant techniques. Our surgeons have performed approximately 45 percent of intestinal transplants worldwide.


Conditions We Treat From gastroschisis to volvulus, view all of the intestinal conditions we treat.	Our Physicians Learn more about our multi-disciplinary liver and intestine transplant team.

Intestine Program Highlights

In 2009, Children’s performed more than two times the number of intestinal transplants than the average pediatric transplant center.
Children’s has performed 236 intestine transplants since the program’s inception in 1990.
Children’s Hospital has the highest patient survival rates (76 percent at three years) compared with all other high-volume patient transplant centers nationwide.
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Last Update
September 14, 2011

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