Purpose: This study aim was to review outcomes of pediatric patients after restorative proctocolectomy with or without a protective ileostomy in the treatment of ulcerative colitis and polyposis syndromes.
Methods: All patients who underwent rectal mucosectomy with ileal pouch reservoir and hand-sewn ileal pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA) during 19-year period were reviewed retrospectively.
Results: Eighty-three patients with ulcerative colitis and 7 patients with polyposis syndromes (ages 2.0-21.8 years) were reviewed. Sixty-eight patients underwent IPAA without diverting ileostomy. Fifty-six patients underwent restorative proctocolectomy as single-stage procedures, and 12 had abdominal colectomy and subsequent definitive IPAA without diverting ileostomy. Nineteen patients had IPAA with diverting ileostomy and subsequent closure of ileostomy. Three-stage procedures were performed in 3 cases. An ileal pouch leak or pelvic abscess occurred in 2 patients. Surgical pouch revision for retraction, efferent limb syndrome, prolapse, pouchitis, or perirectal infections occurred in 19 (6/62 J-pouch, 13/28 S-pouch). Fourteen patients (5/22 with diversion, 9/68 without diversion) developed small bowel obstruction. Overall, daytime and nighttime continence was excellent with rare nocturnal evacuations.
Conclusions: Restorative proctocolectomy without protective ileostomy is not associated with an increased morbidity, even in patients with active colitis, and may be appropriate most patients.
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