Postoperative outcomes of surgical delay in inflammatory bowel disease patients: a multicenter cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Postponement of surgical inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) care may lead to disease progression. This study aims to determine the influence of delayed surgical IBD procedures on clinical outcomes. This multicenter retrospective cohort study included IBD patients who underwent a surgical procedure during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic from March 16, 2020, to December 31, 2020, and were compared to a pre-COVID-19 cohort. The primary endpoint was determining the number of (major) postoperative complications. Secondary endpoints were the time interval between surgical indication and performance of the surgical procedure and the risk factors of postoperative complications using multivariate analysis. Eighty-one IBD patients who underwent a surgical procedure were included. The

SUBMITTER: de Bock E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11341736 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature