A case Report of Short Bowel Syndrome

Short bowel syndrome in adult means the condition that length of short bowel is less than 200 cm. Functional definition of this syndrome refers to decreased absorption capacity of intestine. This problem will cause some clinical manifestations such as diarrhea, dehydration and malabsorption. Case Report: Our studied case was a 31 years old man who had pain in his left flunk since three weeks ago. After the peritonitis and gangrene diagnosis, he was operated and just 10-15cm from proximal of jejunum and 30cm from distal of ileum remained. His colon had not any problem. The patient one year after operation came back to the normal life without any need to the Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN). In patients with acute mesenteric ischemia due to gangrene of intestine, resection and anastomosis is not usually recommended because it decreases the patient’s survival. We concluded that if colon has not any problem and 10 to 15cm from proximal of jejunum and 20 to 30cm from distal of ileum were remained, it’s better to do the complete resection and anastomosis. In this paper we showed that these patients could really survive.