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About 75 % of the patients with Crohn’s disease will require surgery at one time or another during the course of their disease. Surgery does not cure Crohn’s disease but rather treats the complications of the disease. Medical management is required to treat the actual disease process and is necessary for most patients to remain healthy after their surgery. The complications of Crohn’s disease that can be addressed by surgery include: bleeding, obstruction (blockage of the bowel), perforation (hole in the bowel wall), abscess (pus pocket), fistualization (abnormal connection between bowels), incontinence (loss of stool), inability to manage the disease medically, and malignancy (cancer).
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Otterson, M.F. (2015). Why Do I Need to Have Surgery for My Crohn’s Disease? Surgical Management of Crohn’s Disease. In: Stein, D., Shaker, R. (eds) Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14072-8_26
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