TABLE 3.
Surgical Outcomes After Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis
| Preoperative Crohn’s Disease (n=17) |
Preoperative Ulcerative Colitis (n=261) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Postoperative complications (%) | 4 (24) | 95 (36) |
| Major medical | 2 (12) | 13 (13) |
| Minor medical | 0 | 10 (4) |
| Major surgical | 1 (6) | 38 (15) |
| Minor surgical | 1 (6) | 34 (13) |
| Pouchitis (%) | 6 (35) | 75 (29) |
| Acute pouchitis | 3 (18) | 40 (15) |
| Chronic pouchitis | 3 (18) | 35 (13) |
| Postoperative CD | 7 (41) | 27 (11)a |
| Pouch failure (%) | 1 (6) | 5 (2) |
| Length of follow up (months) | 60 (17–159) | 36 (1–194) |
a
P = 0.002. CD, Crohn’s disease.