CIRTA — 16th International Congress of the Intestinal Rehabilitation & Transplant Association

The care of adults and children with intestinal failure has become a well integrated mission, with intervention of gastroenterologists, hepatologists, surgeons, anesthesiologists, specialized nurses, social workers, through procedures and treatments such as long term home parenteral nutrition, lengthening surgery, growth factors administration and transplantation. The ultimate aim of this demanding care is for these patients to lead a “near normal” life.

The meeting will unite physicians and allied health professionals on topics such as the basics of intestinal regeneration and immunology, the exciting discoveries on the numerous positive and deleterious aspects of the microbiome, the many roads of the gut-liver axis, the challenges of everyday life with parenteral nutrition, the future of rehabilitation such as hormonal therapy and artificial intestine, the difficulties and successes of intestinal transplantation, the long term outcomes of these patients, and the many ways to improve the patients’ life, such as psychological and social support, in the education system and workplace, compliance and transition, telemedicine, and patient care in less affluent countries.