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ReviewJournal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract2013

State-of-the-art surgical approaches to the treatment of medically refractory ulcerative colitis.

Liliana Bordeianou, Lillias Maguire

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Review in Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Liliana BordeianouThe Crohn's and Colitis Center and the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman Street, ACC 460, Boston, MA, 02114, USA, lbordeianou@partners.org.
Lillias Maguire
Harvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionManagement of medically refractory ulcerative collitis (UC) is a significant challenge to the surgeon. Operative morbidity is high and the potential for mortality remains. DISCUSSION: Medical therapies have the potential to meaningfully improve the patient, or may dangerously delay and complicate surgery. Operative planning must appropriately address the patient's acuity without losing sight of the patient's long-term need for definitive surgical care and adequate functional outcome. State-of-the-art treatment hinges on prompt recognition of patients with acute severe UC, multidisciplinary coordination of medical therapy, and mature surgical judgment. Biologic therapies and minimally invasive surgical technologies represent the vanguard in UC. However, state-of-the-art treatment of acute severe UC is not employment of the newest drug or technology, but early performance of standard of care surgery, ileal pouch anal anastomosis, for every eligible patient. As the range of therapies available for UC continues to expand, the challenge for the surgeon is incorporating these new drugs and devices without losing sight of the standard of care.

Indexed as

ColectomyColitis, UlcerativeColonic PouchesHumansIleostomyLaparoscopyPatient Care TeamProctocolectomy, RestorativeSeverity of Illness IndexTime Factors

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PMID24002758
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