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Centro de Rehabilitación Intestinal Avanzada

The Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation (CAIR) at Children's Hospital Boston is one of the world's premier programs for the treatment of short bowel syndrome, a complex and often devastating disorder caused by the loss of part of the small bowel. Treatment options may include nutritional management, medical services or surgical services (including, but not limited to, intestinal transplant).

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	Old-fashioned lifeline Read how a fish oil called Omegaven is helping patients like little Ellie Brogan.


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		STEP Webcast Watch surgeons at Children's Hospital Boston perform a serial transverse enteroplasty (STEP) bowel lengthening and tapering procedure on a patient with short bowel syndrome (SBS) during a live webcast.

Expert Team

The program is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of specialists who come together to provide patients with comprehensive, expert care. This includes bowel rehabilitation, the use of innovative hepato-protective therapy (Omegaven) and intestinal and multivisceral transplant.

The team actively participates in research focused on the treatment and understanding of short bowel syndrome and has made major contributions to the field, including the development of a groundbreaking surgical procedure.

The program is led by:
Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH, Medical Director
Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD, Surgical Director

Staff includes:

Physicians trained in surgery, gastroenterology and nutrition
Fellows in pediatric surgery and gastroenterology
Registered dietitian
Nurse practitioner
Enfermera/o
Farmacéutico
Trabajador social


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		Enfermedad de Crohn
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	Patient's Story: Saving Alex A month before he turned 2, Alex Malo became the first patient to have a STEP procedure, an innovative bowel-lengthening operation invented at Children's...

Enlaces útiles

	North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
	American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
	The American Society for Nutrition
	The Oley Foundation


					Children's Hospital Boston es el principal hospital de enseñanza pediátrica de la Escuela de Medicina de Harvard.

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