Small bowel transplant

A small bowel (intestinal) transplant is an operation to replace a diseased or shortened small bowel with a healthy bowel from a donor.

It's a complicated and highly specialised operation that's only carried out at four specialist centres in the UK:

• Birmingham Children's Hospital
• Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge
• Churchill Hospital in Oxford
• King's College Hospital in London

A successful small bowel transplant can allow you to live as normal a life as possible, although medication and regular check-ups will be needed indefinitely.