title: [Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases].
abstract: Surgical decision making in inflammatory bowel disease also includes aspect of the patient's general condition. If conservative therapy fails surgical therapy in ulcerative colitis and diverticulitis is a curative procedure. In Crohn's disease the situation is principally different. Conservative and surgical treatment being only symptomatical, they cannot lead to a definite cure. Quality of life and disease-free interval must be compared to the general risk, i.e. lethality and morbidity of conservative therapy as well as of surgery. The analysis of our own patients shows a minimal risk after surgery.
mesh_terms: D003082:Colectomy / Q000379:methods; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000601:surgery*; D003125:Colostomy / Q000379:methods; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D004239:Diverticulitis, Colonic / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D012306:Risk
vernacular_title: Chronisch-entzündliche Darmerkrankungen.