Early Colectomy in Severe Ulcerative Colitis
- 1 June 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology
- Vol. 10 (4) , 427-431
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00365521.1975.12096989
Abstract
Flatmark, A., Fretheim, B. & Gjone, E. Early colectomy in severe ulcerative colitis. Scand. J. Gastroent. 1975, 10, 427-431. Before 1 February 1967 patients with severe attacks of ulcerative colitis were usually operated on after a prolonged period of medical treatment, and the mortality was 22%. During a 7-year period, beginning 1 February 1967, early colectomy has been performed in 21 patients with toxic megacolon and 58 patients with fulminating colitis. Immediate mortality in these 79 patients was 1.2% (one death). Two more patients died in connection with secondary operations. Thus the overall operative mortality in the present series was 3.7%.Keywords
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