Euro Gastroenterology 2018

Gastrointestinal Transplantation

Organ transplantation is a boon to the mankind whose internal organs have started to deteriorate and is no longer functioning. Although, with the regular lifestyle changes and the disease progression, the patients requiring transplant is ever increasing while the organ donors are lesser in number. Transplantation is recommended only when the organ has stopped responding to the treatments and is almost failing. Most of the organs in the gastrointestinal tract can be transplanted. For being eligible to be able to receive a transplanted organ, one should be able to satisfy all the required regulations set by the transplantation committee. The major gastrointestinal transplantations are liver, pancreas, oesophagus, small intestine, and colon. The transplantation is a major surgery, and so the patient has to be under observatory before and after the transplantation. Most of the times, the complications arise after the operation, where the body starts rejecting the graft or the organ. The complications if any can be diagnosed through haematological or imaging tests.