Clinical Discrimination of Chronic Pouchitis After Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis.
Yoshiki OkitaMasaki OhiTakahito KitajimaTadanobu ShimuraAkira YamamotoHiroyuki FujikawaYoshinaga OkugawaKohei MatsushitaYuhki KoikeMikihiro InoueKeiichi UchidaYuji ToiyamaPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2020)
Patients with ulcerative colitis were more likely to develop chronic pouchitis if they exhibited early onset or severe disease activity at onset. Evaluation of both factors can aid in early treatment decisions to alleviate chronic pouchitis.