Obstructive uropathy after pan-proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.

Quality of life in patients with ileal pouch for ulcerative colitis.

The improvement of surgery in the treatment of ulcerative colitis prompts us to consider its impact on the quality of life of the patients. Obviously, it is mandatory that the results after surgery should be better than the symptoms which elective surgery is designed to treat. A review of the literature was carried out on the current status of quality of life in patients with ulcerative colitis...

Effect of proctocolectomy on serum antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies in patients with chronic ulcerative colitis.

AIMS To study the effect of proctocolectomy on the antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) titres in association with ulcerative colitis. METHODS Serum samples were taken from 15 patients with ulcerative colitis immediately before and at a mean of 24 months after proctocolectomy. Indirect immunofluorescence for ANCA and enzyme immunoassays for myeloperoxidase and proteinase-3 antibodies we...

Complete resolution of non‐necrotizing lung granuloma and pyoderma gangrenosum after restorative proctocolectomy in a woman with severe ulcerative colitis and cytomegalovirus infection

Here, we report the unusual case of an ulcerative colitis female patient presenting together with cytomegalovirus infection, pyoderma gangrenosum and a noncaseating lung granuloma, both resistant to immunomodulatory drugs which dramatically obtained a clinical stable remission after restorative proctocolectomy.

Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir: pathological and histochemical study of mucosal biopsy specimens.

Mucosal biopsy specimens from the ileal reservoirs of 92 patients who had undergone restorative proctocolectomy (12 with familial adenomatous polyposis, 78 with ulcerative colitis, and two with functional bowel disease) were studied. Chronic inflammation was found in almost all, as was villous atrophy of varying severity. Other changes included pyloric metaplasia and mucosal prolapse. Acute inf...

Progress with the pouch--restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis.