
Valeria C. Cohran, MD, emphasized the importance of close collaboration between intestinal rehab programs and general pediatricians to optimize care for children with intestinal failure.

Valeria Cohran, MD, Medical Director, Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation; Attending Physician, Gastroenterology; Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Valeria C. Cohran, MD, emphasized the importance of close collaboration between intestinal rehab programs and general pediatricians to optimize care for children with intestinal failure.

Older age, longer remaining intestine, and presence of an ileocecal valve were linked with a greater likelihood of achieving sustained enteral autonomy in children with short bowel syndrome-associated intestinal failure.