King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre continues to advance complex transplant medicine through its Intestinal Transplant Program, a highly specialized service designed to manage patients ...

Intestinal failure is defined as having an intestinal condition which renders a child unable to maintain adequate hydration and meet calorie absorption needs sufficient for growth. This results in ...

Intestinal stem cells (ISCs) derived from a patient's own cells have garnered significant attention as a new alternative for ...

SBS-IF is the second orphan disease target indication for Jaguar's intestinal failure program, which includes microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) - for which the company completed a meeting in ...

The Glennon Intestinal Rehabilitation and Feeding (GIRAF) program was established in 2015 as the first multidisciplinary program of its kind in the region dedicated to the specific needs of pediatric ...

Intestinal Stem Cells (ISCs) derived from a patient's own cells have garnered significant attention as a new alternative for treating intractable intestinal diseases due to their low risk of rejection ...

A recent study sheds light on what predisposes premature infants to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a deadly intestinal disease. Currently, there are no targeted treatments for NEC because the causes ...

The terms "intestinal barrier" and "intestinal permeability" describe two different aspects of the same anatomical structure, the intestinal wall composed of four layers, the mucosa, the submucosa, ...

Specifically, the team confirmed that increased expression of cytoskeleton-binding and actin-binding proteins leads to a stable restructuring of the internal cellular architecture. This provides the ...