Kouhei Fukushima, Hisao Fujii, Takehira Yamamura, Akira Sugita, Shingo Kameoka, Hirokazu Nagawa, Kitaro Futami, Toshiaki Watanabe, Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama, Toshio Sawada, Kazuhiko Yoshioka, Masato Kusunoki, Fumio Konishi, Masahiko Watanabe, Ken-Ichi Takahashi, Hitoshi Ogawa, Yuji Funayama, Toshifumi Hibi, Iwao Sasaki
"Pouchitis" is a term for nonspecific mucosal inflammation of the pouch after total proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis. Pouchitis is the most frequent complication of the pelvic pouch at the late stage. To improve the accuracy of the pouchitis diagnosis, sets of clinical symptoms and endoscopic findings (with or without histology of biopsy samples) have previously been evaluated. Endoscopic findings are central to the diagnosis, and a universal consensus of various endoscopic findings must be the initial step toward an objective diagnosis of pouchitis...
October 2007: Journal of Gastroenterology