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Types of Intestine Transplant Surgery In India

Intestine transplantation is also known as small bowel transplantation and intestinal transplantation. This is a last resort for people suffering from intestinal failure when they have had no significant success in treating this disorder with any other alternate non-surgical and surgical procedures.


In case a person is under total parenteral nutrition (TPN) for a long period of time they are likely to develop life-threatening complications such as catheter-related infections, bone disorders and even liver failure. It can also affect the veins used to administer nutrition through the catheter. In such cases it becomes necessary to perform an intestine transplantation of the small intestine to treat the fatal complications and improve the quality of life.

Pre-transplant Diagnoses for Intestine Transplantation?

The major cause for requiring an intestine transplantation is the failure of the small intestine to absorb and process essential nutrients, electrolytes and fluids from the food. This functional failure causes various complications in the body such as homeostasis, energy misbalance, etc. An intestinal failure can be caused by various reasons that mainly result from nutritional, traumatic, infectious and metabolic complications that adversely affect the person's physiology and anatomy.

Several genetic and congenital factors are also responsible for causing intestinal failure in a person such as severe inflammation, bowel obstruction, ulceration, perforation and fistulas. The 'short bowel syndrome', which causes mal-absorption often due to the surgical removal of the small intestine, is the largest cause for an intestinal transplantation.

Surgical removal of the small intestine (short bowel syndrome) is the most common form of treatment for a number of congenital and gastroenterological conditions such as necrotizing enterocolitis, Crohn's disease, motility disorder, volvulus and tumors.

To evaluate the need for you to have an intestine transplant the doctor will check your medical history and perform various diagnostic tests to determine if you need an intestinal transplant.