Case Report
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World J Gastrointest Surg. Jan 27, 2016; 8(1): 101-105
Published online Jan 27, 2016. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v8.i1.101
Successful living donor intestinal transplantation in cross-match positive recipients: Initial experience
Raquel Garcia-Roca, Ivo G Tzvetanov, Hoonbae Jeon, Elisabeth Hetterman, Jose Oberholzer, Enrico Benedetti
Raquel Garcia-Roca, Ivo G Tzvetanov, Hoonbae Jeon, Jose Oberholzer, Enrico Benedetti, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital and Heals Sciences Systems, Chicago, IL 60622, United States
Elisabeth Hetterman, Department of Pharmacy practice (MC 886), College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital and Heals Sciences Systems, Chicago, IL 60622, United States
Author contributions: Garcia-Roca R data collection and writing of the manuscript; Tzvetanov IG writing of the manuscript; Hetterman E data collection and analysis; Jeon H revisions and corrections of the manuscript; Oberholzer J revisions and corrections of the manuscript; Benedetti E data supervision, original idea, and creation of guidelines for the manuscript, revision and correction of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The Institutional review board does not require a protocol for reporting cases reports. Retrospective review of data pertaining intestinal transplant recipients is covered under protocol 2008-0070.
Informed consent statement: Recipients and donor consented for the procedures. The institutional review board protocol 2008-0070 refers to retrospective and prospective data collection and consent waived according to the study protocol.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No conflict of interest is declared by any of the authors.
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Correspondence to: Enrico Benedetti, Professor, Head of the Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital and Heals Sciences Systems, 840 S Wood Street, Suite 402, Chicago, IL 60622, United States. enrico@uic.edu
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Received: May 23, 2015
Peer-review started: May 23, 2015
First decision: August 14, 2015
Revised: August 18, 2015
Accepted: September 10, 2015
Article in press: September 16, 2015
Published online: January 27, 2016
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Core Tip

Core tip: Intestinal transplant candidates are frequently sensitized and waiting longer on the list. Living donation of intestine has been successful and allows for time to immunologically prepare sensitized recipient prior to transplant to achieve higher degree of success.