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Risk factors for diseases of ileal pouch-anal anastomosis after restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Although pouchitis is considered the most common adverse sequela of ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA), inflammatory and noninflammatory conditions other than pouchitis are increasingly being recognized. The risk factors for these non-pouchitis conditions, including Crohn's disease (CD) of the pouch, cuffitis, and irritable pouch syndrome (IPS), have not been studied. The aim of this study was to assess risk factors for inflammatory and noninflammatory diseases of IPAA in a tertiary care setting. METHODS: The study consisted of 240 consecutive patients who were classified as having healthy pouches (N = 49), pouchitis (N = 61), CD of the pouch (N = 39), cuffitis (N = 41), or IPS (N =50). Demographic and clinical features were assessed to determine risk factors for each of these conditions by using logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Risk factors remaining in the final logistic regression models were for pouchitis: IPAA indication for dysplasia (odds ratio [OR], 3.89; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.69-8.98), never having smoked (OR, 5.09; 95% CI, 1.01-25.69), no use of anti-anxiety agents (OR, 5.19; 95% CI, 1.45-18.59), or use of NSAIDs (OR, 3.24; 95% CI, 1.71-6.13); for CD of the pouch: a long duration of IPAA (OR, 1.20; 95% CI, 1.12-1.30) and current smoking (OR, 4.77; 95% CI, 1.39-16.25); for cuffitis: arthralgias (OR, 4.13; 95% CI, 1.91-8.94) and younger age (OR, 1.16; 95% CI, 1.01-1.33); and for IPS: use of antidepressants (OR, 4.17, 95% CI, 1.95-8.92) or anti-anxiety agents (OR, 3.21; 95% CI, 1.34-7.47). CONCLUSIONS: The majority of risk factors for the 4 inflammatory and noninflammatory conditions of IPAA are different, suggesting that each of these diseases has a different etiology and pathogenesis. The identification and modification of these risk factors might help patients and clinicians to make a preoperative decision for IPAA, reduce IPAA-related morbidity, and improve response to treatment.

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Restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis in children--is the J-pouch better than straight pull-through?

Proctocolectomy and ileoanal anastomosis (IAA), with or without an ileal pouch, is the preferred method for the surgical treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC) in children. The authors compared the surgical complications and functional outcome for patients with UC who had proctocolectomy and straight IAA with those of patients who had proctocolectomy and IAA with a J-pouch. Twenty-two children (aged 7 to 15 years) with intractable UC had an IAA, 11 by straight ileoanal anastomosis (SIAA) and 11 with a J-pouch (JIAA). The median clinical and endoscopic follow-up period for SIAA patients was 4 years (range, 3.0 to 6.5 years); for JIAA patients it was 2 years (range, 1 to 3 years). The frequency of daytime and nighttime defecation was significantly higher (P < .03) for patients with SIAA at 3, 6, and 12 months postoperatively. At the last follow-up visit, the mean frequency of defecation for patients with SIAA was 6.1 +/- 2.5/d; that for patients with JIAA was 3.3 +/- 0.5/d (P < .03). Six of 10 patients with SIAA but none with JIAA had nighttime bowel evacuations. None of the patients had daytime soiling; 3 with SIAA and 2 with JIAA had slight soiling during sleep. There was no significant difference in the incidence of early (SIAA 27% v JIAA 45%) and late (SIAA 54% v JIAA 27%) surgical complications between the two groups. Endoscopically confirmed symptomatic pouchitis during the first postoperative year was found in 4 of the 11 (36%) patients with SIAA and in 2 of the 11 (18%) with JIAA (difference not significant). The early and long-term functional results of JIAA are superior to those of SIAA. There is no difference in the incidence of surgical complications and pouchitis between JIAA and SIAA patients.

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Sexuality in patients with ulcerative colitis before and after restorative proctocolectomy: a prospective study.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to assess sexuality in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), before and one year after an ileal-pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA). METHODS: Group I comprised 14 medically treated patients (7 M) and Group II comprised 29 patients (18 M), operated with colectomy and ileostomy, with preservation of the rectum. Patients were interviewed about desire, excitement and general sexual satisfaction before and one year after the IPAA operation. RESULTS: Most of the patients had restarted sexual activity < or = 3 months after surgery. Sexual desire and desire for intercourse had not changed from before the IPAA operation. In Group I, one woman suffered from dyspareunia both before and after the IPAA. In Group II, three women had dyspareunia before the IPAA and four after surgery. Erection and ejaculation were normal in all men before the IPAA operation. After IPAA, one man in Group I and two men in Group II had loss of ejaculation. In Group 1, 10 out of 14 patients were satisfied with their sexual life both before and after the IPAA. In Group II the corresponding figures were 15 out of 28 before and 22 after IPAA surgery. CONCLUSIONS: A third of the patients stated that they were dissatisfied with their sexual life before IPAA. Although a few patients experienced sexual imperfections such as loss of ejaculation and dyspareunia, the majority of patients in both groups considered that the overall general satisfaction with their sexual life had normalized considerably after surgery.

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Morbidity and functional outcome after restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.

OBJECTIVE: To find out whether a threefold increase in follow up (median 108 compared with 36 months) influenced major morbidity and functional outcome between the first 32 and the last 32 patients consecutively operated on with J-pouch ileoanal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis from 1984 to 1997. DESIGN: Retrospective and prospective study. SETTING: University hospital, Norway. PATIENTS: 64 patients with ulcerative colitis who had proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomoses. INTERVENTIONS: The pouches were mainly hand anastomosed (n = 61) to the dentate line after mucosectomy or anastomosed by double stapling technique without mucosectomy (n = 3). The 58 patients who still had their pouches responded to a questionnaire on functional outcome and satisfaction. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Morbidity, functional outcome, and patients' satisfaction. RESULTS: Major morbidity in these 64 patients comprised pelvic sepsis in 3 (5%), operation for intestinal obstruction in 5 (8%), pouchitis in 12 (19%), fistulas in 7 (11%) and pouch excision in 6 (9%). Thirteen patients (20%) had 35 reoperations and 11 patients (17%) had 22 re-laparotomies. There were more complications among the first 32 patients with the longest follow up than among the last 32 patients, but this difference was significant only concerning the rate of reoperations (31% compared with 9%) because of the higher number of pouch excisions (5 compared with 1) in this group. There were no significant differences in the functional outcome and degree of patient satisfaction between the first 29 and the last 29 patients. Respective values for 24 hour median stool freqency were 7.0 and 6.3, leakage of stool 48% and 38%, ability to defer defaecation 86% and 97%, perineal irritation 59% and 48%, use of antidiarrhoeal medication 55% and 52%, and wearing of pad 28% and 38%. Sexual life (n = 57) was improved in 11 (19%) and reduced in 7 (12%). Potency was reduced in 5 (15%) and ejaculation in 4 (12%), one of whom (3%) had retrograde ejaculation. Three (5%) received disability pensions and five (9%) had reduced workload. After the pouch operation 48 (91%) felt better and 3 (6%) felt worse because of frequent bowel emptying, perineal eczema, or pouch fistula. CONCLUSION: Continence-preserving proctocolectomy carries considerable morbidity, but the long term functional outcome is satisfactory and does not seem to deteriorate substantially.

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Pouchitis-associated pyoderma gangrenosum following restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.

A 43-year-old female with ulcerative colitis treated by proctocolectomy and ileal pouch--anal anastomosis developed acute pouchitis. Although no extra-intestinal manifestations were present before the surgical procedure, pyoderma gangrenosum developed concomitantly with the appearance of acute pouchitis. Both conditions completely resolved with oral metronidazole only. This is the first report of acute pouchitis-related pyoderma gangrenosum. This association suggests that pouchitis may represent a recurrent ulcerative colitis-like syndrome within the novel environment of the pouch.

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The risk of dysplasia and cancer in the ileal pouch mucosa after restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative proctocolitis is low: a long-term term follow-up study.

AIM: Some of the rare complications reported in patients with an ileopouch anal anastomosis (IPAA) after coloectomy for chronic ulcerative colitis are dysplasia and carcinoma. The supposed pathway is for the ileal pouch mucosa to go through adaptational changes then is to progress through the phases of chronic pouchitis, dysplasia and subsequently to adenocarcinoma. In many of these studies however, the dysplasia-cancer sequence is inconclusive since the carcinoma might have developed from the ileal mucosa itself or from residual viable rectal mucosa left behind. The purpose of this study was therefore to study the long-term ileal mucosal adaptation patterns and the incidence and grading of dysplasia in the ileal pouch mucosa in patients previously operated on for ulcerative proctocolitis. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Forty-five patients who had been operated on with an IPAA (25 males/20 females), with a median age of 54 years (range 34-76), were invited for clinical examination and pouch endoscopy including mucosal biopsies. The duration of their colitis until surgery was median 6 years (range 1-28) and the time median interval from start of disease until time of follow up 24.8 years (range 17-46). Three independent pathologists from two different centres reviewed sequential mucosal biopsies taken from separate sites of the pouch for dysplasia and mucosal adaptation patterns. RESULTS: The type C pattern with a severe inflammation in lamina propria together with severe atrophy of villi, sometimes with ulceration and granulation tissue, was observed by the two pathologists from one centre in 15 of 45 (33.3%) patients and in 11 (24.4%) of 45 by the third pathologist, respectively. As regards dysplasia one pathologist group evaluated 2/45 (4.4%) cases as low-grade dysplasia while the third pathologist considered one of these cases as indefinite for dysplasia and one as reactive. There was in this respect full agreement between the two centres in 43 (95.6%) of 45 cases. Neither high-grade dysplasia nor invasive carcinoma was diagnosed. CONCLUSION: Dysplastic transformation within the ileal pouch mucosa in patients operated for ulcerative proctocolitis is rare even after a long follow-up. These results are reassuring for both patients and surgeons. There seem to be no solid grounds to support routine surveillance for dysplasia in the ileal pouch mucosa in these patients. The surveillance for neoplastic changes in the remaining muscular/epithelial cuff is a separate issue however.

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Restorative proctocolectomy and pouch anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis following orthotopic liver transplantation.

This study reports on the outcome of four patients having ileal pouch anal anastomosis after orthotopic liver transplantation for sclerosing cholangitis complicating ulcerative colitis. There were no deaths on follow up. Early postoperative bleeding was a complication of colectomy or rectal excision in three, one of whom developed hepatic artery thrombosis and the overall complication rate was high. All patients are continent but one has chronic pouchitis (while receiving longterm metronidazole) and one patient has recurrent sclerosing cholangitis in the transplant.

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Smoking may prevent pouchitis in patients with restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.

Epidemiological studies have shown an increased risk of ulcerative colitis (UC) in non-smokers and particularly recent ex-smokers. Patients with UC have an increased risk of pouchitis following ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, which may be a manifestation of the original disease susceptibility. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that smoking habit may influence the incidence of pouchitis. All patients with a functioning pouch > or = 12 months at one centre were assessed. Patients were excluded if (a) the original indication was not UC (n = 5), (b) the excised pouch showed histology diagnostic of Crohn's disease (n = 2), and (c) data were inadequate (n = 4). Smoking data were collected by questionnaire, or direct interview, or both. Ex-smokers were those who had stopped smoking < 7 years before colectomy. Non-smokers included ex-smokers who had stopped > 7 years before colectomy. Pouchitis was defined as an increase in stool frequency > 8/day with acute inflammation on biopsy specimen histology. Each presentation requiring treatment was regarded as an episode. For comparison smoking habit was assessed with regard to three other adverse outcomes - haemorrhage, sepsis, and pouch excision. Of 72 non-smokers (mean follow up 3.5 years) 18 had 46 episodes of pouchitis. Of 12 ex-smokers (mean follow up 3.3 years) four patients have had 14 episodes of pouchitis. Only one smoker from 17 has had a single episode of pouchitis. This shows that smokers have significantly less episodes of pouchitis compared with non-smokers (p = 0.0005) and ex-smokers (p = 0.05). There was no association of smoking habit with other adverse outcomes.

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Prospective controlled trial of duplicated (J) versus quadruplicated (W) pelvic ileal reservoirs in restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.

AIMS: A prospective randomised controlled trial was conducted to find out what influence the design of the pelvic reservoir had on the functional outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Sixty patients received either a duplicated (J) or a quadruplicated (W) reservoir, constructed with either 30 or 40 cm of ileum. Each patient underwent laboratory tests of anorectal function before and one year after operation. RESULTS: One year after operation, 57 patients were available for assessment: each had good anal continence, though eight experienced minor leakage of mucus, and all were able to defer defecation for more than 15 minutes. Median bowel frequency in 24 hours (IQR) in patients with J reservoirs (5 (4-7)) did not differ significantly from that of patients with W reservoirs (5 (4-6)). Likewise, bowel frequency in patients with the smaller (30 cm) reservoirs did not differ significantly from bowel frequency in patients with the larger (40 cm) reservoirs. However, patients with large W40 reservoirs had the lowest bowel frequency of the four groups (median 4 per 24 hours, p = NS). The capacity and compliance of the W40 reservoirs were greater than those of the other types of reservoir, but the differences were not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide support for the use of a relatively small (30 cm), duplicated (J) ileal reservoir, which is simple to construct with linear stapling instruments.

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Carcinoma of pelvic pouch following restorative proctocolectomy: report of a case and review of the literature.

One of the possible long-term complications following an ileoanal pouch procedure is the development of malignancy in the mucosa of the rectal stump. Only 10 such cases have been reported so far. We report the case of a 23-year-old male who had ulcerative colitis with high-grade dysplasia and underwent an ileoanal pouch procedure. He was found to have a malignancy in the rectal stump 5 years after surgery. The malignancy presented with symptoms of refractory pouchitis. Pouch excision was performed. The risk of developing malignancy in the rectal mucosa after an ileoanal pouch procedure mandates regular follow-up in these patients, with a high index of suspicion especially in patients with delayed onset pouchitis.

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