Longitudinal intestinal lengthening and tailoring
The longitudinal intestinal lengthening and tailoring procedure is performed by the duodenum and anastomosing the duodenal stump to the pancreatic capsule or duodenal wall left in place on the pancreatic capsule. There are also another ways of performing this procedure. it is one of the surgical therapeutic options alongside with other surgical options such as small bowel segmental reversal, artificial intestinal valve construction, electrical pacing of the small bowel, serial transverse enteroplasty, or transplantation in treatment of short gut syndrome.
The procedure was first described by Bianchi in 1980 in a porcine model and first applied clinically by Boeckman and Traylor in 1981.
