Posted 3/20/2013 5:57 PM (GMT 0)
A link to an abstract of a newly published quality of life study done on over 3000 patients at Cleveland Clinic (mostly for UC) from 1984-2010. The results show that j-pouch function is good to excellent for 95% of the patients, only about 5% experience failure, and less than 4% wind up with pouch removal.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23299522
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