Bowel Surgery Should Not Be Last Resort, UK Study

The threshold for deciding elective surgery for inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease is too high says a new UK report. The result is that surgery is treated as a last resort resulting in too many emergency operations with poorer survival rates than if earlier elective surgery had been performed. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Crohn on November 1st, 2007