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Netwd Health Directory
Short Bowel Syndrome
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Aaron's Gift Of Life
Personal page of the parents of this child after a lot of main surgeries and intestinal and liver transplants.
Anatomic Draws
Images and information about this disease.
Children
Information about this disease in the childhood: etiology, diagnoses and treatments, provided by Children's Hospital Boston.
Cleveland Clinic
Etiology, pathophysiology and management, with attention to phisiologic consequences of intestinal resection.
DeAndre's Page
Parents of a child with short bowel syndrome and needing total parenteral nutrition, write their story.
DeeDee's Short Bowel Syndrome Group
ICQ interest group about this disease.
Discovery Health: Short Bowel Syndrome
Images, causes, risks, signs and symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
eMedicine: Short Bowel Syndrome
Etiology, history, physiology, evolution, dietary, medical and surgical treatment of this illness in the childhood.
Epidemiology
Frequency, etiology, pathophysiology, anatomy, diagnosis, lab results and treatment in an article by e-Medicine.
Help Stephanie
A twelve years old girl suffered from a near-fatal chain of events that caused her to lose her small bowel. Her story, news and articles related collected by the Stephanie's Foundation for Intestinal Disorders - SFID.
Kaya Estlyn Shepherd-Poppick's Home Page
Kaya Estlyn Shepherd-Poppick's story. She has had an intestine transplant for this disease and her family gives support by information and e-mail to patients needing it.
MedlinePlus: Short Bowel Syndrome
Illustrations, definition, incidence, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of this disease.
National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
A brief look at this syndrome and what it is, the symptoms, reasons and treatment.
Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Short Bowel Syndrome
Information, risk factors, presentation, management of these disease.
No Guts Country Club
Association providing information, support by mailing list, newsletter and contact by e-mail to patients with a short bowel syndrome.
Nursing Spectrum: Short Bowel Syndrome and the Hospitalized Pediatric Patient
Nurses' knowledge and information about the care of patients with this syndrome and children who endure prolonged hospitalization.
Nutritional Information
Definition, early and long term nutritional support nutrition assessment, intervention and outcome.
The Oley Foundation
Organization providing advocacy and extensive information services to those on nutrition therapy for SBS and other conditions.
Pediatric Views: Short Bowel Procedure Proves Simple and Effective
Description of a surgical technique to decrease width and increase length of the bowel in this disease.
Sao Paulo Medical Journal : Hypomagnesemia in Short Bowel Syndrome Patients
Scientific article about incidence and treatment of hypomagnesemia in patients with extensive small bowel resection.
Seth's Story
Seth was born at 32.5 weeks gestation with the majority of his intestines exposed. The exposed intestine was also gangrenous, thus he lost most of his small intestine.
Short Bowel Syndrome
Description and information about diagnosis, etiology and physiology.
Zorbtive [somatropin (rDNA origin) for injection]
Information about the use of somatropin (rDNA origin) in a damaged or resected short intestine. Patient handbook available.[PDF format]
Did you know?
There are six diseases included in the group of myeloproliferative disorders and this group includes chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), polycythemia rubra vera (PRV), chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia (ET), chronic neutrophilic leukemia, and chronic eosinophilic leukemia.
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