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  • Title: [Surgical therapy of severe colitis].
    Author: Seelig MH, Uhlig H, Braun J, Schumpelick V.
    Journal: Chirurg; 1996 Feb; 67(2):150-4. PubMed ID: 8881212.
    Abstract:
    Severe colitis, eventually complicated by toxic megacolon, perforation or massive hemorrhage still represents a potentially life threatening complication during the course of inflammatory bowel disease reaching a mortality of almost 40% if not operated in time. From 1.1.1973 until 30.4.1994 22 patients (13 men, 9 women, mean age 29 years) with either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease of the colon were operated on for severe colitis. Indications for operative treatment were as follows: 7 patients relapsed conservative medical treatment, 8 developed toxic megacolon and in 7 patients perforation occurred. Diagnosis was based on the clinical criterias first described by Turnbull. In 11 (50%) cases subtotal colectomy with an ileostomy and intrapelvic Hartmann's pouch was performed, in 4 (18%) patients a Turnbull's procedure was carried out with loop ileostomy and colostomies and in 3 (14%) cases a left hemicolectomy and transversostomy was applied. In two patients with Crohn's disease an ileocolic resection was done because of perforation, one received a subtotal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis and one patient was operated by a right hemicolectomy and ileostomy. One patient with ulcerative colitis died, reaching a post-operative mortality of 4.5%. After an intervall of approximately 18 months in the 16 surviving patients with ulcerative colitis an ileal pouch-anal procedure could be done. Of the 5 patients with Crohn's disease one had to be operated on for recurrence, the other patients have been free of recurrent Crohn's disease for a follow-up time between 3 and 11 years. We conclude, provided early operative treatment is intended, that subtotal colectomy with Hartmann's pouch and ileostomy is the procedure of choice in patients with severe colitis.
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