what are the stats on cuffitis? living with vs pouch failure?
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This study at Dr. Shen's pouchitis clinic indicate a little less than half are refractory to 5-ASA treatment. Of all the cuffitis patients in the study, about 16% wound up with pouch failure.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23328773
Of course, statistics are fairly meaningless if you are in the small percentage of failure.
Jan
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23328773
Of course, statistics are fairly meaningless if you are in the small percentage of failure.
Jan
Why would cuffitis cause pouch failure?i have had it since takedown 5 years ago.meds help somewhat I guess
It does not mean that the pouch itself failed because of the cuffitis.
Pouch failure generally means either defunctioning the pouch with a diverting stoma or pouch removal with ileostomy. So, in regard to the cuffitis, failure means intolerable symptoms that do not repsond to treatment, or intolerable side effects of the treatment. The end result is the same of no functioning j-pouch.
Jan
Pouch failure generally means either defunctioning the pouch with a diverting stoma or pouch removal with ileostomy. So, in regard to the cuffitis, failure means intolerable symptoms that do not repsond to treatment, or intolerable side effects of the treatment. The end result is the same of no functioning j-pouch.
Jan