Abstract
Dear Sir, Postoperative complications may develop more frequently in Crohn's disease (CD) than in other digestive diseases, because CD is frequently associated with possible risk factors for postoperative complications: impaired nutritional status, chronic corticosteroid and immunosuppressive medications, and preexisting sepsis such as enteric fistula and intra-abdominal abscess. Before the era of biologics, Yamamoto et al.1 found that septic complications such as anastomotic leak, intra-abdominal abscess, and enteric fistula were significantly associated with preoperative low albumin level, preoperative steroids use, abscess at the time of laparotomy, and fistula at the time …
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