A prospective evaluation of the gothenburg intestinal transplant endoscopy score

Aims Intestinal transplantation is a procedure aimed to reverse the life-threatening complications seen in patients with intestinal failure. However, the major factor that influences long-term survival and hinders a firm establishment of this procedure is the occurrence of rejection. Nevertheless, a grading system for its severity is still lacking. Therefore Gothenburg Intestinal Transplant Endoscopy Score (GITES) was developed by our team. GITES is a novel, five-stage score aiming to describe and categorize the endoscopic findings after intestinal transplantation. In theory, this system could result in a more objective evaluation of the visual findings and subsequently a faster diagnosis of rejection.