Is Intestine Rehabilitation For You?

Intestine rehabilitation may help if you depend on TPN or IV feeding for intestine failure. The Henry Ford Intestine Transplant and Rehabilitation Program treats:

Structural causes of intestine failure

Short bowel syndrome

Blockage or obstruction of the bowel due to:

• hernia
• twisted intestine (volvulus)
• folded intestine (intussusception)

Surgical removal of part of the intestine due to:

• tissue death (necrotizing enterocolitis)
• inadequate blood flow to small intestine (mesenteric ischemia or thrombosis)
• trauma to the abdomen
• malrotation/volvulus
• tumor     
• Crohn’s disease

Functional causes of intestine failure

• Chronic intestine obstruction or pseudo-obstruction
• Celiac disease
• Damage from radiation therapy
• Chronic diarrhea (congenital villous atrophy/microvillous inclusion disease/tufting enteropathy)
• Fistula
• Hirschsprung's disease
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Intestine dysmotility