De Novo Crohn's Disease in Children With Ulcerative Colitis Undergoing Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis: A Multicenter, Retrospective Study From the Pediatric IBD Porto Group of the ESPGHAN.
Massimo MartinelliErminia RomeoTamara CaldaroKonstantina DimakouAlexandra PapadopoulouManar MatarAmit AssaValeria DipasqualeClaudio RomanoMarina AloiPatrizia AlvisiDennis RöserKaija Leena KolhoNadeem AfzalOren LedderSchlomi CohenJiri BronskyJohanna C EscherAnnecarin BruecknerRaanan ShamirAnnamaria StaianoErasmo MielePublished in: Inflammatory bowel diseases (2023)
Children with UC undergoing IPAA carry a high risk of developing subsequent CD. De novo CD cases showed decreased preoperative body mass index z scores, identifying a poor nutritional status as a possible predictive factor.