Predictors of postoperative recurrence in a cohort of Tunisian patients with Crohn's disease.
Aya HammamiRaida HarbiNour ElleuchKhaled Ben MeddebWafa Ben AmeurWafa DahmaniAhlem BrahamSalem AjmiMehdi KsiaaAida Ben SlamaHanen JaziriAli JmaaPublished in: Therapeutic advances in gastrointestinal endoscopy (2022)
Smoking, duration of disease before first surgery <9.5 months, and limited resection margins (<2 cm) from macroscopically diseased bowel were independent risk factors for clinical recurrence. Based on these factors, patients could be stratified in order to guide postoperative therapeutic options.