200.4: Serial Transverse Enteroplasty (STEP) for the Short Gut Syndrome (SGS) Patients with Gut Failure (GF)

Introduction: With recent evolution of gut rehabilitation, bowel lengthening is increasingly utilized to restore nutritional autonomy in patients with GF. This is the first largest single center experience with STEP particularly among adults with different causes of SGS including Crohn’s and allograft rejection. Methods: Over 7 years, 65 SGS-GF-patients received a total of 79 STEP procedures. Sixty one(94%) patients were adults and 4(6%) were...