Watchful Waiting After Radiological Guided Drainage of Intra-abdominal Abscess in Patients With Crohn’s Disease Might Be Associated With Increased Rates of Stoma Construction

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[El-Hussuna A] OpenSourceResearch Collaboration, Aalborg, Denmark. [Steenholdt C] Department of Gastroenterology, Herlev Hospital, Herlev, Denmark. [Merrild Karer ML, Nyggard Uldall Nielsen N] Department of Surgery, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. [Mujukian A, Fleshner PR] Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Pellino G] Unitat de Cirurgia de Còlon i Recte, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain. Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli,” Naples, Italy

Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus

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2023-09-04T12:21:17Z

2023-09-04T12:21:17Z

2023-07



Abstract

Crohn’s disease; Abscess; Stoma


Malaltia de Crohn; Abscés; Estoma


Enfermedad de Crohn; Absceso; Estoma


Background Management of spontaneous intra-abdominal abscess (IAA) in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) with radiologically guided percutaneous drainage (PD) was debated. Methods This is a secondary analysis from a multicenter, retrospective cohort study of all the patients with CD who underwent PD followed by surgery at 19 international tertiary centers. Results Seventeen patients (4.8%) who did not undergo surgery after PD were compared to those who had PD followed by surgical intervention 335/352 (95.2%). Patients who had PD without surgery were those with longer disease duration, more frequently had previous surgery for CD (laparotomies/laparoscopies), enteric fistula, on steroid treatment before and continue to have it after PD. Patients who had PD without subsequent surgical resection had a higher risk of stoma construction at later stages 8/17 (47.1%) versus 90/326 (27.6%) (P < .01). Patients with PD with no subsequent surgery had numerically higher rates of abscess recurrence 5/17 (29.4%) compared to those who had PD followed by surgery 45/335 (13.4%) the difference was not statistically significant (P = .07). Conclusions Even with the low number of patients enrolled in this study who had PD of IAA without subsequent surgery, the findings indicate a markedly worse prognosis in terms of recurrence, length of stay, readmission, and stoma construction. Watchful waiting after PD to treat patients with spontaneous IAA might be indicated in selected patients with poor health status or poor prognostic factors.

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English

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Oxford University Press

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