Acute fulminating transmural ileocolitis after small bowel bypass for morbid obesity.
A personal series of small bowel bypass operations for morbid obesity is presented. The importance of careful considerate follow-up by the operating surgeon is stressed. The development of acute fulminating transmural ileocolitis, Crohn's disease, in a patient twenty-two months after such surgery is reported and considered merely a dangerous coincidence, combining an acute colonic disease with a short small intestine.
D000328:Adult; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy*; D011183:Postoperative Complications