Background: About 80% of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) require bowel resection and up to 65% will undergo a second resection within 10 years. This study reports clinical risk factors for resection surgery (RS) and repeat RS. Methods: Retrospective cohort study, using data from patients included in the Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort. Cox regression analyses were performed to estimate rates of initial and repeated RS. Results: Out of 1,138 CD cohort patients, 417 (36.6%) had already undergone RS at the time of inclusion. Kaplan-Meier curves showed that the probability of being free of RS was 65% after 10 years, 42% after 20 years, and 23% after 40 years. Perianal involvement (PA) did not modify this probability to a significant extent. The main adjusted risk factors for RS were smoking at diagnosis (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.33; p = 0.006), stricturing with vs. without PA (HR = 4.91 vs. 4.11; p < 0.001) or penetrating disease with vs. without PA (HR = 3.53 vs. 4.58; p < 0.001). The risk factor for repeat RS was penetrating disease with vs. without PA (HR = 3.17 vs. 2.24; p < 0.05). Conclusion: The risk of RS was confirmed to be very high for CD in our cohort. Smoking status at diagnosis, but mostly penetrating and stricturing diseases increase the risk of RS.

1.
Cosnes J: Can we modulate the clinical course of inflammatory bowel diseases by our current treatment strategies? Dig Dis 2009;27:516-521.
[PubMed]
2.
Cosnes J, Cattan S, Blain A, Beaugerie L, Carbonnel F, Parc R, Gendre JP: Long-term evolution of disease behavior of Crohn's disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2002;8:244-250.
[PubMed]
3.
Whelan G, Farmer RG, Fazio VW, Goormastic M: Recurrence after surgery in Crohn's disease. Relationship to location of disease (clinical pattern) and surgical indication. Gastroenterology 1985;88:1826-1833.
[PubMed]
4.
Mekhjian HS, Switz DM, Watts HD, Deren JJ, Katon RM, Beman FM: National Cooperative Crohn's Disease Study: Factors determining recurrence of Crohn's disease after surgery. Gastroenterology 1979;77:907-913.
[PubMed]
5.
Nos P, Domenech E: Postoperative Crohn's disease recurrence: a practical approach. World J Gastroenterol 2008;14:5540-5548.
[PubMed]
6.
Van Assche G, Rutgeerts P: Medical management of postoperative recurrence in Crohn's disease. Gastroenterol Clin North Am 2004;33:347-360, x.
[PubMed]
7.
Achkar JP, Hanauer SB: Medical therapy to reduce postoperative Crohn's disease recurrence. Am J Gastroenterol 2000;95:1139-1146.
[PubMed]
8.
Pariente B, Cosnes J, Danese S, Sandborn WJ, Lewin M, Fletcher JG, Chowers Y, D'Haens G, Feagan BG, Hibi T, Hommes DW, Irvine EJ, Kamm MA, Loftus EV Jr, Louis E, Michetti P, Munkholm P, Oresland T, Panes J, Peyrin-Biroulet L, Reinisch W, Sands BE, Schoelmerich J, Schreiber S, Tilg H, Travis S, van Assche G, Vecchi M, Mary JY, Colombel JF, Lemann M: Development of the Crohn's disease digestive damage score, the Lemann score. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2011;17:1415-1422.
[PubMed]
9.
Peyrin-Biroulet L, Loftus EV Jr, Colombel JF, Sandborn WJ: The natural history of adult Crohn's disease in population-based cohorts. Am J Gastroenterol 2010;105:289-297.
[PubMed]
10.
Penner RM, Madsen KL, Fedorak RN: Postoperative Crohn's disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2005;11:765-777.
[PubMed]
11.
Rutgeerts P: Strategies in the prevention of post-operative recurrence in Crohn's disease. Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol 2003;17:63-73.
[PubMed]
12.
Henriksen M, Jahnsen J, Lygren I, Aadland E, Schulz T, Vatn MH, Moum B: Clinical course in Crohn's disease: results of a five-year population-based follow-up study (the IBSEN study). Scand J Gastroenterol 2007;42:602-610.
[PubMed]
13.
Lazarev M, Ullman T, Schraut WH, Kip KE, Saul M, Regueiro M: Small bowel resection rates in Crohn's disease and the indication for surgery over time: experience from a large tertiary care center. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2010;16:830-835.
[PubMed]
14.
Schwartz M, Regueiro M: Prevention and treatment of postoperative Crohn's disease recurrence: an update for a new decade. Curr Gastroenterol Rep 2011;13:95-100.
[PubMed]
15.
Lemann M: Can post-operative recurrence in Crohn's disease be prevented? Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2006;24(suppl 3):22-28.
[PubMed]
16.
Cottone M, Orlando A, Viscido A, Calabrese E, Camma C, Casa A: Prevention of postsurgical relapse and recurrence in Crohn's disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2003;17(suppl 2):38-42.
[PubMed]
17.
Pittet V, Juillerat P, Mottet C, Felley C, Ballabeni P, Burnand B, Michetti P, Vader JP: Cohort profile: The Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study (SIBDCS). Int J Epidemiol 2009;38:922-931.
[PubMed]
18.
Lennard-Jones JE: Classification of inflammatory bowel disease. Scand J Gastroenterol Suppl 1989;170:2-6, 16-19.
[PubMed]
19.
Silverberg MS, Satsangi J, Ahmad T, Arnott ID, Bernstein CN, Brant SR, Caprilli R, Colombel JF, Gasche C, Geboes K, Jewell DP, Karban A, Loftus EV Jr, Pena AS, Riddell RH, Sachar DB, Schreiber S, Steinhart AH, Targan SR, Vermeire S, Warren BF: Toward an integrated clinical, molecular and serological classification of inflammatory bowel disease: report of a working party of the 2005 Montreal World Congress of Gastroenterology. Can J Gastroenterol 2005;19(suppl A):5-36.
[PubMed]
20.
Harrell FE Jr, Califf RM, Pryor DB, Lee KL, Rosati RA: Evaluating the yield of medical tests. JAMA 1982;247:2543-2546.
[PubMed]
21.
Lakatos PL, Golovics PA, David G, Pandur T, Erdelyi Z, Horvath A, Mester G, Balogh M, Szipocs I, Molnar C, Komaromi E, Veres G, Lovasz BD, Szathmari M, Kiss LS, Lakatos L: Has there been a change in the natural history of Crohn's disease? Surgical rates and medical management in a population-based inception cohort from western Hungary between 1977 and 2009. Am J Gastroenterol 2012;107:579-588.
[PubMed]
22.
Sands BE, Arsenault JE, Rosen MJ, Alsahli M, Bailen L, Banks P, Bensen S, Bousvaros A, Cave D, Cooley JS, Cooper HL, Edwards ST, Farrell RJ, Griffin MJ, Hay DW, John A, Lidofsky S, Olans LB, Peppercorn MA, Rothstein RI, Roy MA, Saletta MJ, Shah SA, Warner AS, Wolf JL, Vecchio J, Winter HS, Zawacki JK: Risk of early surgery for Crohn's disease: implications for early treatment strategies. Am J Gastroenterol 2003;98:2712-2718.
[PubMed]
23.
Peyrin-Biroulet L, Harmsen WS, Tremaine WJ, Zinsmeister AR, Sandborn WJ, Loftus EV Jr: Surgery in a population-based cohort of Crohn's disease from Olmsted County, Minnesota (1970-2004). Am J Gastroenterol 2012;107:1693-1701.
[PubMed]
24.
Landsend E, Johnson E, Johannessen HO, Carlsen E: Long-term outcome after intestinal resection for Crohn's disease. Scand J Gastroenterol 2006;41:1204-1208.
[PubMed]
25.
Vavricka SR, Spigaglia SM, Rogler G, Pittet V, Michetti P, Felley C, Mottet C, Braegger CP, Rogler D, Straumann A, Bauerfeind P, Fried M, Schoepfer AM, Swiss IBDCSG: Systematic evaluation of risk factors for diagnostic delay in inflammatory bowel disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2012;18:496-505.
[PubMed]
26.
Cosnes J, Gower-Rousseau C, Seksik P, Cortot A: Epidemiology and natural history of inflammatory bowel diseases. Gastroenterology 2011;140:1785-1794.
[PubMed]
27.
Lindberg E, Jarnerot G, Huitfeldt B: Smoking in Crohn's disease: effect on localisation and clinical course. Gut 1992;33:779-782.
[PubMed]
28.
Sutherland LR, Ramcharan S, Bryant H, Fick G: Effect of cigarette smoking on recurrence of Crohn's disease. Gastroenterology 1990;98:1123-1128.
[PubMed]
29.
Song XM, Gao X, Li MZ, Chen ZH, Chen SC, Hu PJ, He YL, Zhan WH, Chen MH: Clinical features and risk factors for primary surgery in 205 patients with Crohn's disease: analysis of a South China cohort. Dis Colon Rectum 2011;54:1147-1154.
[PubMed]
30.
Cosnes J, Carbonnel F, Beaugerie L, Le Quintrec Y, Gendre JP: Effects of cigarette smoking on the long-term course of Crohn's disease. Gastroenterology 1996;110:424-431.
[PubMed]
31.
Romberg-Camps MJ, Dagnelie PC, Kester AD, Hesselink-van de Kruijs MA, Cilissen M, Engels LG, Van Deursen C, Hameeteman WH, Wolters FL, Russel MG, Stockbrugger RW: Influence of phenotype at diagnosis and of other potential prognostic factors on the course of inflammatory bowel disease. Am J Gastroenterol 2009;104:371-383.
[PubMed]
32.
Wolters FL, Russel MG, Sijbrandij J, Ambergen T, Odes S, Riis L, Langholz E, Politi P, Qasim A, Koutroubakis I, Tsianos E, Vermeire S, Freitas J, van Zeijl G, Hoie O, Bernklev T, Beltrami M, Rodriguez D, Stockbrugger RW, Moum B: Phenotype at diagnosis predicts recurrence rates in Crohn's disease. Gut 2006;55:1124-1130.
[PubMed]
33.
Veloso FT, Ferreira JT, Barros L, Almeida S: Clinical outcome of Crohn's disease: Analysis according to the Vienna classification and clinical activity. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2001;7:306-313.
[PubMed]
34.
Buisson A, Chevaux JB, Bommelaer G, Peyrin-Biroulet L: Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of postoperative Crohn's disease recurrence. Dig Liver Dis 2012;44:453-460.
[PubMed]
You do not currently have access to this content.