Absorption des médicaments lors de syndrome du grêle court

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) occurs when a patient is left with less than 200 cm of functional small intestine. Drug absorption is mostly a passive process and can be affected by the surface area of the remaining gastrointestinal tract. Oral medication absorption is often impaired and larger doses, or other administration routes may be required. Although patients with SBS do need pharmacotherapy for symptoms associated with their pathology or for other comorbidities, there are few published case reports on drug absorption, and few studies have been conducted in small patients' samples. Moreover, due to the highly heterogeneous nature of this patient population, it is difficult to directly apply the findings of the published literature to specific patients. Drug dosages should be guided by the monitoring of clinical endpoints and/or of biomarkers.