A Case of Perioperative Bacterial Meningitis Following Laparoscopic Restorative Proctocolectomy in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis

Progress with the pouch--restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.

Mucormycosis Pneumonia in an Ulcerative Colitis Patient: A Case Report

Background and Objectives: Ulcerative Colitis is an inflammation of colon mucosa that is treated by corticosteroids. Our aim in this study was to report a case of immunodeficiency in this disease caused by long-term corticosteroid treatment. Case Report: This study was a case report of ulcerative colitis patient, who has been using prednisolone from five years ago till now without the doctor's...

Ileal Perforation in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis after Proctocolectomy

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a form of inflammatory bowel disease that typically involves the colorectum; it has been reported that a certain proportion of patients with UC also develop ileitis, leading to ileal perforation in very extreme cases. We report a 66-year-old male with UC who presented with ileal perforation eight days after proctocolectomy. Although this situation is very rare, differ...

proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis

Between 1976 and 1985, 110 patients had restorative proctocolectomy or proctectomy for ulcerative colitis and 103 were foilowed up until death or February 1992. There was one postoperative and one late death related to surgery. The cumulative probability of pouch failure was 12% at five years: half of the failures occurred within one year. The commonest reasons were perianal/pelvic sepsis and p...

A Case-matched Comparative Study of Laparoscopic and Open Total Proctocolectomy for Ulcerative Colitis.

The aim of this single-institution, retrospective, observational case-control study was to evaluate the safety and feasibility of laparoscopic proctocolectomy (PC) for ulcerative colitis (UC), by comparing it with a case-control series of open PC. Twenty UC patients who underwent laparoscopic PC were retrospectively compared with the open PC group of 12 patients matched for age, sex, and urgenc...