Post Transplant Complications
After intestinal transplant the patients may experience postoperative complication(s). The commonest complications include infections, rejection, intestinal ischemia, and leaks from the anastomoses. Because of the high doses of immunosuppressive medications, intestinal transplant recipients are at higher risk of infection compared to other surgery patients. Rejection is another complication in which body reacts against the transplanted intestine. Intestinal ischemia and leak are mostly related to due to surgical technical difficulty in reconnection of the intestine and the vessels. There are treatment options for all of the above-mentioned complications but in some cases they result in graft loss or even death of the patient.