P065 - Medina catheter use following restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis: quality of life and functional outcome

Quality of life following restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis.

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a hereditary disease of the colon. Both FAP and long standing UC carry an increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). At present, restorative proctocolectomy (RP) is the surgical treatment of choice for UC and for all patients with FAP. RP aims to remove the entire diseased colon and resto...

Quality of life after restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis: different questionnaires lead to different interpretations.

BACKGROUND According to some researchers, health-related quality-of-life scores for patients who undergo restorative proctocolectomy (RPC) for ulcerative colitis (UC) are comparable to those of healthy control subjects. Other studies show evidence that patients who undergo RPC experience a health-related quality of life similar to patients with mild UC or UC in remission. HYPOTHESIS The discr...

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

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...

Complications and functional outcomes of restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis in the elderly

BACKGROUND Restorative proctocolectomy with ileopouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) is the treatment of choice for intractable or complicated ulcerative colitis (UC). Debate exists concerning outcomes of IPAA in the elderly and literature data are scarce. We report our experience of IPAA in older population. METHODS We gathered data on a prospective database of patients undergoing IPAA for UC over ...