Conditions We Treat

Our multidisciplinary team uses innovative and groundbreaking techniques and therapies, along with pioneering research, to treat diseases that affect the length and integrity of your child’s intestines. Our treatments enhance your child’s ability to move food, digest food, and absorb nutrients to develop and grow. The global goal of intestinal rehabilitation is tissue regeneration when possible, using the IV nutrition to help the injured intestine recover and adapt.  

Our comprehensive team of gastroenterologists, pediatric surgeons, registered dietitians, social workers, nurses, and pharmacists all have specific training and experience with intestinal rehabilitation and nutrition support. We provide the full continuum of care for all types of conditions that affect the intestines and create challenges for nutritional health. We meet families where they are and improve care from there, as every child’s intestinal needs are unique.

Conditions include the following:

• Short bowel syndrome. Also called short-gut, this condition occurs when part of the small intestine is missing, causing diarrhea and making it difficult to absorb nutrients from food. Common causes of short bowel syndrome include gastroschisis, necrotizing enterocolitis, intestinal atresia, and volvulus.
• Pediatric intestinal pseudo-obstruction (PIPO). A rare motility disorder involving the nerves and muscles or special cells in the intestines that keep liquids and foods from moving through the intestines, causing symptoms of a blockage.
• Pediatric onset congenital enteropathy (PediCODE) or congenital diarrheal disorders (CDDs). Inherited diarrhea disorders, sometimes with monogenic (a single gene) inheritance, that start in the first weeks of life and are associated with malabsorption and feeding difficulties.
• Immune enteropathies. Uncommon diseases caused by an immune system disorder, including primary immunodeficiency, FOXP3, and IPEX syndrome, which result in diarrhea in early childhood.