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Cardiac tamponade is a rare extraintestinal manifestation of ulcerative colitis. We present a case report of tamponade occurring four years after curative proctocolectomy and in the absence of any medical therapy for ulcerative colitis. Options for medical management of this condition are also discussed.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate postoperative adverse events and functional outcomes of patients undergoing restorative proctocolectomy with or without proximal diversion. DATA SOURCES The literature was searched by means of MEDLINE, Embase, Ovid, and Cochrane databases for all studies published from 1978 through July 15, 2005. STUDY SELECTION Comparative (randomized and nonrandomized) studies evalua...

INTRODUCTION Early postoperative complications graded according to the Clavien-Dindo classification system have not previously been correlated with long-term quality of life outcomes in patients who have had restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis. This study aimed to assess the severity of early postoperative complications and compared these in terms of the long-term qual...

PURPOSE Restorative proctocolectomy is the procedure of choice for patients undergoing proctocolectomy for familial adenomatous polyposis or ulcerative colitis. This meta-analysis was designed to identify differences in adverse events and functional outcomes between these two groups. METHODS Studies published between 1986 and 2003 that compared outcomes between patients with familial adenomat...

We read with interest the article by Eshuis et al., ‘Previous infliximab therapy and postoperative complications after proctocolectomy with ileum pouch anal anastomosis’.1 The authors conducted a retrospective study evaluating patients who underwent pouch surgery for ulcerative colitis (UC). One-stage procedures (n=33; proctocolectomy with pouch, with or without temporary diversion) and two-sta...

OBJECTIVE Retrospective proctocolectomy is a distinguished, sphincter saving treatment used for the treatment of ulcerative colitis and FAP disease. We aimed to evaluate ileal pouch interventions performed at our clinic and their results in the light of literature. MATERIAL AND METHODS Medical records of 35 restorative proctocolectomy and J pouch ileo-anal anastomosis surgeries performed at N...