Pouchitis in inflammatory bowel disease: a review of diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment

Pouchitis in inflammatory bowel disease: a review of diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) occasionally need a restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) because of medically refractory colitis or dysplasia/cancer. However, pouchitis may develop in up to 70% of patients after this procedure and significantly impair q...

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Main Authors: Shintaro Akiyama, Victoria Rai, David T. Rubin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases 2021-01-01
Series:Intestinal Research
Subjects:
pouchitis
pouch failure
inflammatory bowel disease
crohn disease
colitis, ulcerative
Online Access:http://www.irjournal.org/upload/pdf/ir-2020-00047.pdf

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