INDICATIONS FOR SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INFLAMMATORY AND ULCERATIVE DISEASES OF THE COLON

Abstract

Indications for surgical treatment at inflammatory-ulcerative colitis (UC, Crohn's disease) are: severe (massive) bleeding, colonic perforation, colonic stricture, pseudopolyposis, ulcer malignization, resistance to conservative therapy (hormone-resistant forms of ulcerative colitis), disease progressing, development of extraintestinal complications combined with intestinal complications.

Differential approach to the choice of surgical treatment tactics is recommended; indications for total colectomy with overlaying of various anastomoses with preventive ileostomy for prevention of postoperative complications are determined.