Endoscopic Surveillance of the Intestinal Allograft: Recommendations From the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Association Working Group.
Intestinal transplant (ITx) rejection lacks a reliable noninvasive biomarker and rejection surveillance relies on serial endoscopies and mucosal biopsies followed by histologic assessment. Endoscopic biopsies are also essential for identifying other ITx-related complications such as infectious, allergic, and inflammatory graft enteritis as well as post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease or graft versus host disease. In spite of its central role in ITx, published guidelines on endoscopy and biopsy are lacking and significant variability between centers in terms of timing and technical performance exists. Therefore, an international expert group convened and discussed several aspects related to the surveillance endoscopy after ITx with the aim to summarize and standardize its practice. This article summarizes these considerations on endoscopic ITx monitoring and highlights practices of surveillance and for-cause endoscopy, biopsy techniques, pathologic evaluation, potential risks and complications, outsourcing, and less-invasive monitoring techniques.
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- Transplantation, Homologous
- Surgery
- Intestines
- Intestinal Diseases
- Humans
- Graft Rejection
- Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal
- Allografts
- 3204 Immunology
- 3202 Clinical sciences
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Location
Related Subject Headings
- Transplantation, Homologous
- Surgery
- Intestines
- Intestinal Diseases
- Humans
- Graft Rejection
- Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal
- Allografts
- 3204 Immunology
- 3202 Clinical sciences