This document provides information about the Global Forum on Transplantation Research and Technologies conference happening from November 28-29, 2016 in Dubai. It also describes the case of a 45-year-old man with very short bowel syndrome who has undergone numerous surgeries for Crohn's disease and now requires constant intravenous nutrition to survive, but whose requests for help to regenerate his bowel or receive a transplant have been denied. The case highlights issues with the healthcare system and a lack of awareness among medical residents of what steps should be taken for a patient in need of transplantation.

1. Global Forum on
Transplantation Research and Technologies
Transplantation Forum - 2016 November 28-29, 2016
I. Christodoulou Surgical Department, G.
Papanikolaou Hospital, Greece
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IreneChristodoulouisaConsultantinGeneralSurgery
at G.PAPANIKOLAOU HOSPITAL, THESSALONIKI,
GREECE, B’ SURGICAL DEPARTMENT, Greece. She
is the 1ST Prize winner for the Best Poster in the
Panhellenic Congress of Laparoscopic Surgery,
Ioannina, Greece. She has done MD from Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki MD, Medical School in
1994. SheisamemberofHellenicSocietyofSurgery,
Hellenic Society of Breast Surgery, International
Society of Surgery, European Society for the Study
of Liver, International Society of HPB Surgery.
Excluded from Hope: The Tragic Story of a Young Man With “Very Short
Bowel” Syndrome
Abstract-Abstract-
Biography-Biography-
Dubai
Speaker
Aim of this study is to present the extraordinary case
ofa45-yearoldmanwithveryshortbowelsyndrome,
who is currently engaged in a long hospitalization
module of life because of the constant need for
parenteral nutrition which he has developed due to
Crohn’s disease treatments.
Presentation of the case: A Russian young
man, with low education, borderline intellectual
functioning and low socioeconomic status, was
operated numerous times due to breakouts of
Crohn’s Disease. For the last one year he stays
mostly in the Hospital, while he had to stay for
about nine months in the Hospital only. Practically
he needs constant intravenous parenteral nutrition
due to his very short bowel syndrome, otherwise he
cannot live outside the Hospital. The application
made to national insurance bodies for receiving
pharmaceutical help for bowel regeneration was
rejected as been improperly set up. His surgeon
did not make any move to announce the case with
official documents asking for bowel transplantation
outside Greece, with national expenses (as case in
great need ) because he assumes that the patient’s
unsolved problem is not his fault and thus he should
not be stigmatized in his Hospital and further in
the Ministry of Health Leadership. Finally, neither
the patient himself nor his wife and relatives asked
for help from supervisory bodies of the National
Health System, because they are probably afraid
of losing the long hospitalization chances they
have. Numerous residents of surgery deal with this
patient for months without even been aware of
what should have been done! This is something like
loss of contact with reality or revival of the past in
Medicine! The patient is a sorrowful icon inside the
Hospital. Furthermore, not even one cared to ask
(including the supervisor bodies) for the very long
hospitalization patient(s). I should emphasize that
Greece is poorer than ever right now.
Conclusion: This case is very much intriguing for
health policy makers and transplantation awareness
investigators, because if transplantation surgery is

2. Global Forum on
Transplantation Research and Technologies
Transplantation Forum - 2016 November 28-29, 2016
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an obligation for some cases, this person is one of
them. But there is no hope for a young person, and
themosttragicpartofhisstoryisthathehascarefully
been advised to visit public Transplantation Surgery
Departments for finding support for his survival
prospects and he has done absolutely nothing. The
most scandalous part however is that numerous
residents of surgery are not aware that they treat a
patient who needs transplantation.
Dubai