Is early surgery associated with a more benign disease course in Crohn's disease? Surgery rates in a population-based inception cohort from western Hungary between 1977–2009
L Lakatos, P Golovics, G Dávid, T Pandur, Z Erdélyi, Á Horváth, G Mester, M Balogh, I Szipocs, C Molnár, E Komáromi, B Lovász, L Kiss, P Lakatos · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2012 · Heft 05
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Background and Aims: Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) most frequently affecting the terminal ileum and right colon, with a high rate of stricturing or penetrating complications. Early surgery may represent a valid alternative to medical therapy, particularly in patients with isolated stenotic ileocaecal CD. Our aim was to analyze the disease course and need for surgery in patients with (within the year of diagnosis) and without an early resective surgery in the population-based Veszprem province database. Methods: Data of 506 incident CD patients were analyzed (age-at-…
