Intestine and Multivisceral Transplant Program

Children’s Hospital Boston’s Intestine and Multivisceral Transplant Program evaluates and cares for infants, children and adolescents who require isolated intestine transplantation, combined liver-intestine transplantation and multivisceral transplantation. Since the program’s inception in 2004, the team has performed 12 transplants.

Our focus is on caring for children with intestinal failure. In association with Children's Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation (CAIR), we provide innovative medical and surgical options for children with intestinal failure.

Heung Bae Kim, MD, surgical director of the Pediatric Transplant Center, and Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD, surgical director of CAIR, developed the serial transverse enteroplasty, or STEP, procedure for short bowel syndrome (SBS) in 2002. The STEP procedure, which lengthens the bowel of children with SBS, may allow some children to wean completely from parenteral nutrition and avoid the need for intestinal transplantation.