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General Surgery

Perspective on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (B)

Built from Maingot's Abdominal Operations

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5 sections · 69 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this topic covers

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease

    What the two diseases are, how common they are, and how often surgery is needed

    • Inflammatory bowel disease defined
    • 2–6%
    • Endoscopic appearance of an inflamed colon
    • Colonic mucosa in ulcerative colitis
    • Reading the biopsy
    • Granulomas in an intestinal lymph node
    • Small and large intestine in the abdomen
    • Change in surgical approach
    • Abdominal wall after keyhole surgery
    • Goals of medical therapy
    • Role and timing of surgery
    • Shared decision making with the patient

    12 slides

  3. 03

    Cause, genetics and drug therapy

    Why these diseases happen, and what infliximab did to the treatment of them

    • Genetic predisposition in inflammatory bowel disease
    • NOD2/CARD15 mutations in Crohn's disease
    • Disease pattern linked to the NOD2/CARD15 mutation
    • Infliximab and tumour necrosis factor alpha
    • Randomised trial evidence for infliximab
    • Established uses of infliximab in Crohn's disease
    • Top-down therapy
    • Concerns about infliximab around the time of surgery
    • Conflicting data on postoperative complications
    • Staging the pouch operation in refractory ulcerative colitis
    • Cost and uptake of infliximab
    • Single-institution studies of health care use
    • Nationwide Inpatient Sample trends, 1998 to 2005
    • Population data from Manitoba, Canada
    • Reconciling small and large studies
    • Interpretation of the utilisation evidence

    16 slides

  4. 04

    Surgery for ulcerative colitis

    Why the exact diagnosis matters, the ileoanal pouch, and the problems that follow it

    • Importance of distinguishing the two diseases
    • Choice of operation for colitis
    • The ileoanal pouch operation
    • Proctocolectomy with permanent ileostomy
    • Quality of life after the two operations
    • Pouchitis
    • Symptoms and course of pouchitis
    • Disease specificity of pouchitis
    • Crohn's disease-like complications after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis
    • Medical management of pouch complications
    • Response of fistulising and stricturing pouch disease
    • Histologic change in the pouch over time
    • Sequence from pouch construction to cancer risk
    • Reported cancers in the pouch and transition zone
    • Guideline position on pouch surveillance
    • Higher-risk groups who should be surveyed
    • Uptake of laparoscopic ileoanal pouch surgery
    • Laparoscopic versus open pouch: case-matched outcomes
    • Case-matched comparison of pouch surgery
    • Meta-analysis of laparoscopic pouch surgery
    • Body image and quality of life after pouch surgery
    • Adhesions, obstruction and fertility

    22 slides

  5. 05

    Surgery for Crohn's disease

    Operating on a disease that has no cure, recurs, and will need operating on again

    • Principles of operating on Crohn's disease
    • Why bowel length must be protected
    • Resection margins in Crohn's disease
    • Fat wrapping and the pinch test
    • Checking the specimen and unexpected findings
    • Small bowel adenocarcinoma in long-standing disease
    • Dividing the mesentery in Crohn's disease
    • Strictureplasty
    • Selecting Crohn's patients for a laparoscopic approach
    • Meta-analysis of ileocolic resection for Crohn's disease
    • Indications for an open approach
    • Summary: medical therapy
    • Summary: surgical therapy
    • References
    • References (continued)
    • References (continued)
    • References (continued)
    • Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12th Edition

    18 slides