Inflammatory Fibroid Polyp Causing Intestinal Obstruction following Restorative Proctocolectomy for Ulcerative Colitis

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

Ileal Inflammatory Fibroid Polyp Causing Ileoileal Intussusception

Inflammatory fibroid polyps are uncommon but well documented solitary polypoid lesions occurring in gastrointestinal tract; most commonly in stomach followed by ileum and rarely in colon, duodenum and oesophagus. Polyps in ileum most commonly present with acute intestinal obstruction as a result of intussusception. We describe one case of inflammatory fibroid polyps of the small intestine causi...

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...

Elemental diet therapy for pouchitis following restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.

I read with interest the article by McLaughlin et al., ‘Exclusive elemental diet impacts on the gastrointestinal microbiota and improves symptoms in patients with chronic pouchitis’.1 In their case series, 7 patients with pouchitis following restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis (UC) were treated with exclusive elemental diet therapy for 4 weeks. The median stool frequency signific...

Restorative proctocolectomy and pouch anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis following orthotopic liver transplantation.

This study reports on the outcome of four patients having ileal pouch anal anastomosis after orthotopic liver transplantation for sclerosing cholangitis complicating ulcerative colitis. There were no deaths on follow up. Early postoperative bleeding was a complication of colectomy or rectal excision in three, one of whom developed hepatic artery thrombosis and the overall complication rate was ...