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  • Title: Ileorectal anastomosis for inflammatory disease of the colon.
    Author: Flint GW, Strauss RJ, Platt N, Wise L.
    Journal: Dis Colon Rectum; 1977 Mar; 20(2):118-25. PubMed ID: 844395.
    Abstract:
    We have reported long-term results in the cases of 42 patients following total colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis for inflammatory bowel disease. In this group, 35 patients had Crohn's disease and seven had ulcerative colitis. Five of those seven patients with ulcerative colitis had carcinoma of the colon at the time of colectomy. A diverting loop ileostomy was constructed in 14 of the 35 patients who had Crohn's colitis at the time of operation, and none of these patients had any anastomotic leakage either before or after the ileostomy was closed. However, there patients with Crohn's colitis in whom anastomotic leaks developed postoperatively; all three patients died. In the group with ulcerative colitis, one patient had an anastomotic leak but there was no operative nortality. Of the 29 patients with Crohn's disease followed for one to 18 years, 12 (41 per cent) developed recurrences in the ileum and/or rectum, and seven of these patients had to have their anastomoses taken down.
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