Inflammatory bowel diseases
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Inflamm. Bowel Dis. · Aug 2014
Postoperative complications and emergent readmission in children and adults with inflammatory bowel disease who undergo intestinal resection: a population-based study.
Although the nature and frequency of postoperative complications after intestinal resection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease have been previously described, short-term readmission has not been characterized in population-based studies. We therefore assessed the risk of postoperative complications and emergent readmissions after discharge from an intestinal resection. ⋯ Readmission and postoperative complications are common after intestinal resection in CD and UC. Clinicians should closely monitor surgical patients who required emergent admission, undergo surgery with stoma formation, or develop in-hospital postoperative complications to anticipate need for readmission or interventions to prevent readmission.