J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 88(2): 216-221, 1987
Case report
AN EXPERIENCE OF ACUTE FULMINANT SEVERE ULCERATIVE COLITIS IN A 75 YEAR-OLD MALE
－A CASE REPORT AND A CONSIDERATION OF SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH SEVERE ULCERATIVE COLITIS－
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Department of Surgery, Yasu Hospital, Shiga, Japan Yukitaka Murata, Katsuhiko Ueoka, Tatsuya Suzuki, Jiro Yura*), Fumihiko Kato*) |
A 75 year-old male was hospitalized as emergency case with complaints of high fever, severe abdominal pain and diarrhea. He was diagnosed as acute fulminant ulcerative total colitis by colonoscopy and barium enema examination. He had urgent operation of ileostomy and decompression cecostomy in the presence of severe disease after intensive medical treatment had failed. After a few days toxic signs gradually disppeared and general status was slightly improved. And then, radical operation of proctocolectomy and permanet ileostomy was successfully performed 3 weeks after the previous operation.
We wish to emphasize in the elderly patients, namely 60 years and over with severe ulcerative colitis, that radical surgical treatment such as proctocoloectomy or total colectomy should be performed after minimal laparotomy with decompression colostomy and ileostomy, because they do not survive so readily as the younger patients.
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