Endoscopic assessment of the J pouch in ulcerative colitis: A narrative review
Shintaro Akiyama,
Edward L Barnes,
Tsubasa Onoda
et al.
Abstract:Patients with ulcerative colitis sometimes need a total colectomy with ileal pouch‐anal anastomosis due to medically refractory disease or colitis‐associated neoplasia. Up to 50% of patients with ulcerative colitis postoperatively develop pouchitis and the rate of chronic inflammatory pouch conditions requiring pouch excision or diverting ileostomy is reported to be 10%. In order to diagnose and monitor pouchitis, pouchoscopy is essential to assess endoscopic inflammatory findings of the J pouch and to survey … Show more
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