Colectomy

Although both patient frailty and type of procedure affected outcomes among adults older than 65 years undergoing emergency surgery, the level of procedure risk had a stronger link to adverse outcomes, according to researchers.

Patients without health insurance experienced higher rates of unplanned surgery, inpatient mortality and complications for access-sensitive conditions that could be treated electively, according to data published in JAMA Surgery.

All patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis in the tofacitinib OCTAVE UC clinical program who underwent colectomy had prior tumor necrosis factor inhibitor failure and most had additional risk factors, according to analysis.

Vedolizumab more effectively induced remission compared with placebo in patients with chronic pouchitis following ileal pouch-anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis, according to research in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Low-dose aspirin suppressed the recurrence of colorectal polyps in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, according to research in The Lancet.

Frailty was independently associated with mortality in a large cohort of patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to study results.

Patients’ clearance of Remicade was a ‘strong predictor’ of colectomy rates within 30 days, 6 months and 1 year of hospitalization for acute severe ulcerative colitis, according to data from Digestive Disease Week.

Since the introduction of anti-TNF therapy in 2004, colectomy rates and corticosteroid use has gone down among patients with ulcerative colitis in Denmark, according to results of a nationwide cohort study.