Potential for Survival in Patients Who Cannot Be Maintained On

total parenteral nutrition and in particular when treatment is complicated by the development of liver failure. In the long term the goal must be to achieve successful transplantation of the small bowel on its own since only a few patients receiving total parenteral nutrition develop severe liver impairment. As in the early days of all other forms of organ transplantation, there are likely to be more failures than successes. While there is a clear case for developing a clinical small bowel transplant