title: [Intestinal Crohn disease: surgical aspects and predictive factors of risk of relapse. About 26 cases].
abstract: Crohn disease is an inflammatory bowel disease of which one cannot declare itself healed. It is a considerably invalidating disease, and surgery is necessary with more than 80% of patients during its long evolution. After a recent review of the literature, we wanted to contribute to the study of the predictive factors of risk of relapse among 26 patients operated for an intestinal Crohn disease during a period of 16 years, from 1986 till 2001. Sex ratio was 0.3 and average age was 33.9 years. Six patients only (23.1%) were known undergoing and treated for Crohn disease. Surgery was indicated urgently in 12 cases (46.2%). The gravity of urgently operated patients burdened the post-operative morbidity in 38.5% of cases of which 2 deaths. Six patients presented a post-operative relapse for an average delay of 40.8 months; among them 3 patients were operated. In our series, we noted that the relapse rate is more frequent with women that with men (42%/21%), and age does not intervene in the relapse contrary to smoking. The rate of relapses was so much more brought up that Crohn disease is former. The relapse was more frequent when the edge of section was sick (5/6). A post-operative medical treatment in the severe forms reduces the rate of relapses until 24%.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Générale, EPS Habib Bourguiba de Sfax Tunisie.
authors.forename: Mohamed Issam
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Beyrouti
authors.forename: Ramez
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beyrouti
authors.forename: Madiha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kharrat
authors.forename: Issam
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kchaou
authors.forename: Med
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abbes
authors.forename: Najmeddine
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Affes
authors.forename: Issam
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tafech
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ghorbel
authors.forename: Mohamed Salah
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Krichene
authors.forename: Tahia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Boudawara
authors.forename: Abdelhafidh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sellami
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors