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| L BordeianouSummaryAffiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Country: USA Publications
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Does incontinence severity correlate with quality of life? Prospective analysis of 502 consecutive patientsL Bordeianou
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA
Colorectal Dis 10:273-9. 2008..The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between disease severity and quality of life in a large cohort of patients...
Anal resting pressures at manometry correlate with the Fecal Incontinence Severity Index and with presence of sphincter defects on ultrasoundLiliana Bordeianou
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Dis Colon Rectum 51:1010-4. 2008..We describe the relationship between anorectal manometry, fecal incontinence severity, and findings at endoanal ultrasound...- Measurements of pelvic floor dyssynergia: which test result matters?Liliana Bordeianou
Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Pelvic Floor Disorders Service, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Dis Colon Rectum 54:60-5. 2011..However, the relationship between these 2 test results and their relationship to defecography is poorly characterized. We aimed to describe this relationship and create a predictive model for pelvic floor dyssynergia on defecography... - Preoperative infliximab treatment in patients with ulcerative and indeterminate colitis does not increase rate of conversion to emergent and multistep abdominal surgeryLiliana Bordeianou
MGH Crohn s and Colitis Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Colorectal Dis 25:401-4. 2010..Our aim was to assess whether infliximab exposure affects rates of subotal colectomy in a large cohort of patients... - Total proctocolectomy with ileoanal J-pouch reconstruction utilizing the hand-assisted laparoscopic approachLiliana Bordeianou
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 13:2314-20. 2009..We detail several important maneuvers that may be helpful to the surgeon faced with the challenge of a difficult laparoscopic pouch... - Faecal incontinence in menD Christoforidis
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Colorectal Dis 13:906-13. 2011..A few studies have specifically addressed faecal incontinence (FI) in men. We sought to describe patterns of male FI, assess treatment outcome and compare some aspects of FI between men and women, including quality of life... 
The intraoperative Surgical Apgar Score predicts postdischarge complications after colon and rectal resectionScott E Regenbogen
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Surgery 148:559-66. 2010..However, because complications often arise after uncomplicated hospitalizations, we sought to evaluate whether this intraoperative metric would predict postdischarge complications after colectomy...- Perioperative treatment with infliximab in patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis is not associated with an increased rate of postoperative complicationsHiroko Kunitake
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman Street, ACC 460, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 12:1730-6; discussion 1736-7. 2008..We examined a large patient cohort to clarify whether a relationship exists between IFX and postoperative complications... - Contained anastomotic leaks after colorectal surgery: are we too slow to act?Scott M Damrauer
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Surg 144:333-8; discussion 338. 2009..Contained and free anastomotic leaks, which occur in a small percentage of patients after colorectal surgery, are different clinical entities and consequently should be managed differently... - Laparoscopy decreases anastomotic leak rate in sigmoid colectomy for diverticulitisMelissa Levack
Colon and Rectal Surgery Program, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Arch Surg 146:207-10. 2011..Our study compared the 30-day postoperative outcomes of laparoscopic and open sigmoid colectomy for diverticulitis by surgeons who had performed 20 or more laparoscopic colectomies before the study period... - Determining the need for radical surgery in patients with T1 rectal cancerHarry M Salinas
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Arch Surg 146:540-3. 2011..Local resection can then be safely offered to the patients who are at low risk of having malignant lymph nodes... - The effect of neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy on the prognostic value of lymph nodes after rectal cancer surgeryCoen L Klos
Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman St, WAC 460, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Surg 200:440-5. 2010..Neoadjuvant therapy may affect the prognostic impact of total lymph node harvests and lymph node positivity after surgery for rectal cancer...