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A surgical procedure meant to counter ulcerative colitis, an immune disease affecting the colon, may trigger a second immune system attack, a new study shows. A surgical procedure meant to counter ...

A proctocolectomy is a surgical procedure that removes the large intestine and rectum. This procedure is commonly used to treat ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and familial adenomatous polyposis.

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While most patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) get adequate symptom relief with drug therapy and lifestyle modifications, a minority do not -- either because the medications don't work, or they do ...

Your large intestine’s job is to get rid of solid waste from your body. But if your doctors remove it because of disease, you might have what’s called J-pouch surgery so you can poop as you did before ...

Ileoanal pouch failure is the need for permanent diversion and/or pouchectomy and/or redoing a J-pouch and occurs in 9% to 12% of patients. The most common cause of pouch failure in the studies ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA cleared the investigational new drug application for ExeGi Pharma LLC’s, EXE-346, a live biotherapeutic ...

Three years ago, 61-year-old Sharon Tschider from Bismarck, North Dakota, noticed she had bleeding with her bowel movements. Married and the mother of seven children, at first she thought the bleeding ...

A woman who almost died after childhood bullies stamped on her stoma is hoping to make fitness history. Lindsay Bowers, 41, from Southampton, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of nine.