1. Small bowel transplantation management during COVID-19 pandemic in a child with microvillus inclusion disease from Turkey
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Yalçın Güvenli, Betül Aksoy, Yeliz Çağan Appak, Maşallah Baran, Ayse Berna Anil, Tülay Kiliçaslan Ayna, İsmail Sert, Mustafa Onur Öztan, Cem Tuğmen, Eyup Kebapci, Goksever Akpinar, Onur Işık, and Muhammet Akyüz
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Gynecology ,Transplantation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,business.industry ,medicine ,General Medicine ,business - Abstract
Microvillus inclusion disease is a cause of congenital intestinal intractable diarrhea. Total parenteral nutrition is required throughout life and the patients need intestinal transplantation for survival. The new Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused a worldwide pandemic in January 2020. Emergency surgical interventions are suggested to carrying out by taking appropriate measures during the pandemic period. In this case report, we aimed to discuss the small bowel transplantation management during the COVID-19 pandemic by presenting a child with microvillus inclusion disease who was underwent emergency small bowel transplantation due to the appropriate cadaveric organ donation.
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- 2020
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