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Fistulizing form of Crohn's disease - rare complication

Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen |
2018

Abstract

We present an unusual case of a young woman with penetrating form of Crohn's disease. Soon after diagnosis, ileoceacal resection was performed, complicated by an post-operative enteric fistula which was very slow to heal.

During the upcoming years, she suffered from recurrent intra-abdominal abscesses in spite of immunosuppressive and later biologic therapy. After three years, we found a peculiar cause of these complications in the form of a foreign body which was then endoscopically transrectally extracted.

She has been in remission ever since.