Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Partipants should understand approach to post-operative management in Crohn's disease including monitoring for disease recurrence. Not all patients with Crohn's disease who required surgical resection will require post opertiave IBD treatment. It is important to recoganize the risk factors associated with Crohn's disease recurrence after surgery and which patients can undergo an surveilance monitoring strategy.
Learning Objectives:
Describe post operative monitoring for Crohn's disease recurrence
Identify Crohn's disease patients at low risk of recurrence who may not require post operatrive therapy
Understand which post operative IBD therapy might be optimal treatment for indivualized patients