TABLE 1.

Cause of Intestinal Failure for Patients Referred to the Pittsburgh Transplantation Center

Adults		Children
Indication	No.	Indication	No.
Crohn’s disease	22	Necrotizing enterocolitis	25
Thrombotic disorder	22	Gastroschisis	19
Trauma	12	Volvulus	14
Pseudo-obstruction	11	Pseudo-obstruction	10
Radiation enteritis	5	Intestinal atresia	6
Familial polyposis	4	Hirschsprung’s disease	3
Volvulus	4	Megacystic colon	3
Budd-Chiari syndrome	2	Microvillus inclusion disease	3
Desmoid tumor	2	Malrotation	2
Gardner’s syndrome	2	Other	14
Other	19