Intestinal Short Bowel Syndrome
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Children - Information about this disease in the childhood: etiology, diagnoses and treatments, provided by Children's Hospital Boston.
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.
No Guts Country Club - Association providing information, support by mailing list, newsletter and contact by e-mail to patients with a short bowel syndrome.
Nora Thomas - Born 4/27/2007 with short bowel syndrome this weblog charts Nora's progress and provides information on Short Bowel treatments.
Nutritional Information - Definition, early and long term nutritional support nutrition assessment, intervention and outcome.
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 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] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.