Glimmers Of Hope For Intestinal Transplantation

: This edition of the AJT features a study from France entitled \"Beyond 10 years, with or without an intestinal graft: present and future?\" with promising results for the field of intestinal transplantation (ITx) (1). The authors studied children who received an ITx at their center between 1989 and 2007, analyzing 10-year post transplant outcomes in a cohort with and without a functional graft (26 and 9 patients, respectively). The overall 10-year patient and graft survival rates were 53% and 36%, respectively, and all patients in the group with a functional graft were weaned off parenteral nutrition and exhibited mostly normal physical growth and minimal abnormality in biopsies.