J-pouch surgery may be right for you if medication doesn’t work to treat your UC symptoms. The procedure involves removing your colon and rectum and adding a J-shaped pouch to your small intestine.

One type of surgery to treat UC, sometimes called J-pouch surgery, is commonly used for treatment. The first step in the process is to remove your entire large intestine, or colon and rectum.

It is often done in a minimally invasive fashion which involves the use of small incisions and specialized instruments to complete the procedure. The ileal pouch anal anastomosis or J-pouch procedure ...

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After removal of the colon, patients may require either an ostomy (bag) or reconstructive surgery, referred to as a "J-pouch" or ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA). The choice of these options is ...

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