Top

Published in:

01-05-2009 | Case Report

Intestinal loop lengthening: early treatment of vanishing bowel

Authors: A. Buluggiu, M. Haddad, M. Coste, C. Louis-Borrione, F. Ughetto, J. M. Guys, Pascal de Lagausie

Published in: Pediatric Surgery International | Issue 5/2009

Abstract

Bianchi’s procedure experience for short bowel syndrome in children is positive. This technique is generally performed after the first year of life. Here the authors propose a case of gastroschisis with prenatal spontaneous closure of abdominal defect and vanishing gut presenting as intestinal atresia, absence of ileo-cecal valve, and residual short intestinal dilatation, treated by early gut lengthening (ILP).

Ballesteros Pomar MD, Vidal Casariego A (2007) Short bowel syndrome: definition, causes, intestinal adaptation and bacterial overgrowth. Nutr Hosp 22(Suppl 2):74–85PubMed

Wales PW, de Silva N, Kim J et al (2004) Neonatal short bowel syndrome: population-based estimates of incidence and mortality rates. J Pediatr Surg 39(5):690–695PubMedCrossRef

Bianchi A (1980) Intestinal loop lengthening—a technique for increasing small intestinal length. J Pediatr Surg 15(2):145–151PubMedCrossRef

Figueroa-Colon R, Harris PR, Birdsong E et al (1996) Impact of intestinal lengthening on the nutritional outcome for children with short bowel syndrome. J Pediatr Surg 31(7):912–916PubMedCrossRef

Georgeson K, Halpin D, Figueroa R et al (1994) Sequential intestinal lengthening procedures for refractory short bowel syndrome. J Pediatr Surg 29(2):316–320PubMedCrossRef

Sheth NP (2001) Vanishing gut in infants with gastroschisis. Pediatr Surg Int 17(5–6):500PubMed

Kimble RM, Blakelock R, Cass D (1999) Vanishing gut in infants with gastroschisis. Pediatr Surg Int 15(7):483–485PubMedCrossRef

Aigrain Y, Cornet D, Cezard JP et al (1985) Longitudinal division of small intestine: a surgical possibility for children with the very short bowel syndrome. Z Kinderchir 40(4):233–236PubMed

Velasco B, Lassaletta L, Gracia R et al (1999) Intestinal lengthening and growth hormone in extreme short bowel syndrome: a case report. J Pediatr Surg 34(9):1423–1424PubMedCrossRef

10.

Bonnard A, Staub G, Segura JF et al (2005) Evaluation of intestinal absorption after longitudinal intestinal lengthening for short bowel syndrome. J Pediatr Surg 40(10):1587–1591PubMedCrossRef

11.

Cezard JP, Aigrain Y, Peuchmaur M et al (1994) Longitudinal division of small intestine in five children with very short bowel: an alternative to small bowel transplantation? Transplant Proc 26(3):1436PubMed

12.

Huskisson LJ, Brereton RJ, Kiely EM et al (1993) Problems with intestinal lengthening. J Pediatr Surg 28(5):720–722PubMedCrossRef

13.

Tannuri U (2003) Serial transverse enteroplasty (STEP): a novel bowel lengthening procedure, and serial transverse enteroplasty for short bowel syndrome. J Pediatr Surg 38(12):1845PubMedCrossRef

Title: Intestinal loop lengthening: early treatment of vanishing bowel
Authors: A. Buluggiu
M. Haddad
M. Coste
C. Louis-Borrione
F. Ughetto
J. M. Guys
Pascal de Lagausie
Publication date: 01-05-2009
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Pediatric Surgery International / Issue 5/2009
Print ISSN: 0179-0358
Electronic ISSN: 1437-9813
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-009-2359-1

2024 ASCO Annual Meeting

Springer Medicine

Intestinal loop lengthening: early treatment of vanishing bowel

Abstract

2024 ASCO Annual Meeting

Springer Medicine

Abstract

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Issue 5/2009

Gastroschisis with jejunal and colonic atresia, and isolated colonic atresia in dichorionic, diamniotic twins

Radical soft tissue mobilization and reconstruction (Kelly procedure) for bladder exstrophy repair in males: initial experience with nine cases

Idiopathic simultaneous intussusceptions in a neonate

Survival trends in children with hepatoblastoma

Association of Escherichia coli O157:H7 with necrotizing enterocolitis in a full-term infant

Traumatic false aneurysm of the left gastric artery