Concept information
Preferred term
pouchitis
Definition
- Pouchitis is inflammation of the ileal pouch (an artificial rectum surgically created out of ileal gut tissue in patients who have undergone a colectomy), which is created in the management of patients with ulcerative colitis, indeterminate colitis, FAP, or, rarely, other colitides.A variety of pathophysiological mechanisms have been proposed for pouchitis, but the precise pathogenesis (biological cause) remains unknown. (Wikipedia)
Broader concept
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/VH8-XQH7HQRV-1
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