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Intestinal Failure Service
Leading comprehensive care for intestinal failure
Welcome to the Intestinal Failure Service at The Princess Grace Hospital
Intestinal Failure Service
The Princess Grace Hospital is delighted to announce the launch of its multidisciplinary intestinal failure (IF) service, one of the only private IF services in the UK. The service supports a group of very complex patients with severe gastrointestinal disorders and advanced malignancy who are unable to maintain their nutritional and fluid requirements without ‘artificial’ nutrition. A dedicated IF service, enables such patients to be optimised for the advanced surgical and medical treatments they need to manage their primary conditions.
Different types of intestinal failure
Self-limiting
Type 1 IF is acute, short-term and self-limiting. It can resolve spontaneously without treatment and lasts less than 28 days. Some examples of type 1 include acute post-op ileus and acute inflammation.
Prolonged
Type 2 IF is a prolonged, acute condition which requires complex multidisciplinary team care and IV supplementation over periods of weeks or months. Some examples of type 2 include abdominal sepsis, enterocutaneous fistula and GI complications.
Long term
Type 3 IF is a chronic condition in which patients need IV supplementation over months or years. This can be irreversible. Some examples of type 3 include short bowel syndrome, chronic obstruction and motility disorders.
Our expert multidisciplinary intestinal failure team
Our patients benefit from the combined experience of a whole team of clinicians, including:
- Surgeons
- Gastroenterologists
- Dietitians
- CNS
- Radiologists
- Pharmacists
- Haematologists
- Microbiologists
- Nutritionists
- Oncologists
- Pathologists
- Psychiatrists
- Physiotherapists
ICU
At The Princess Grace Hospital our state-of-the-art intensive care unit, which has an integrated high-dependency unit, means we can deliver enhanced patient care to the most critically unwell patients, while our ward-level critical care outreach team means we can support those patients who require extra monitoring in a traditional ward setting.
Nutritional support
We deliver enteral and parenteral nutrition support as well as expert nutritional analysis and advice to our patients. Our programme allows patients with chronic conditions who need parenteral nutritional support to receive that treatment in the comfort of their own home. Due to the complex nature of this treatment, The Princess Grace Hospital is proud to be one of the few in the UK able to offer it.
Intestinal failure service location
The Princess Grace Hospital
42-52 Nottingham Place W1U 5NY London
From our patients
Intestinal failure patient stories
An intestinal failure success story
“I’m six foot two and my average weight at the time was around nine and a half, or 10 stone. If you look back at old family photos, I'm skin and bone, you know?”
Jon, 58, is recalling his referral for surgery a little over 10 years ago. Having lived with Crohn's disease of the small intestine for most of his life, he was showing signs of intestinal failure (IF) and was becoming dangerously malnourished.