Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplatation

MedlinePlus
A trusted source that provides information on intestinal diseases, treatments and surgical interventions.

National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
Part of the National Institute of Health involved in digestive research and treatment options

Trans Web  
The Trans Web mission is to provide information about donation and transplantation to the general public to promote organ donation and to provide transplant families with information dealing with specific transplant issues.

Intestinal Transplant Registry 
Established in 1994, the registry reviews the worldwide experience in small bowel transplantation and prepares a report every two years on the state of intestinal transplant.

US Transplant -- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
The SRTR supports the ongoing evaluation of the scientific and clinical status of solid organ transplantation in the United States.

The Oley Foundation
National, independent, non-profit organization that provides up to date information, outreach services
and emotional support for people whose daily survival depends on home intravenous or tube-fed nutrition.

Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CFFA)  
Founded in 1967, CCFA is a non-profit, volunteer driven organization dedicated to finding the cure for Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis.

General Organ Donation

National Organ and Tissue Donation Initiative
The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is undertaking this initiative to ease the critical shortage of organ and tissue donors by building a national community of organ sharing.

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
Through the UNOS Organ Center, organ donors are matched to waiting recipients 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Through its policies, UNOS ensures that all patients have a fair chance at receiving the organ they need-regardless of age, sex, race, lifestyle, religion, or financial or social status. UNOS members include every transplant program, organ procurement organization, and tissue typing laboratory in the United States.

Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network
Web site of the not-for-profit organ procurement organization that works with hospitals and donor families in the northern three fourths of Illinois and northwest Indiana. The organization is responsible for the recovery of organs and tissue for medical transplantation in the service area, as well as for professional and public education on organ and tissue donation.

Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)
OPTN is a unique public-private partnership that links all of the professionals involved in the donation and
transplantation system.  It's goals are to increase the supply of donated organs available for transplantation and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the National system of organ sharing (UNOS).

Coalition on Donation 
Educates and promotes organ donation.