After IPAA, functional results in terms of stool frequency and rate of fecal incontinence did not deteriorate with time.

Double-stapled IPAA appears to convey no early functional advantage over handsewn IPAA for chronic ulcerative colitis.

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At a mean of nearly five years after surgery, failure appears to occur more frequently in patients with indeterminate colitis than in patients with chronic ulcerative colitis. However, the great majority of indeterminate colitis patients (> 80 percent) have long-term functional results identical to those of patients with chronic ulcerative colitis.

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