Chronic pouchitis can be associated with significant morbidity with emotional and psychological distress. Treating this persistent phenotype can also be challenging. This video aims to provide you an overview of how to approach a patient with chronic pouchitis.
Resources
2022 - Management of pouch neoplasia: consensus guidelines from the International Ileal Pouch Consortium
2020 - Mistakes in Pouchitis and how to avoid them
2013 - Diet of patients after pouch surgery may affect pouch inflammation
Biographies
Dr Jonathan Segal
Jonathan Segal is a former pouch fellow at St Mark's Hospital and is now a consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. He has a deep passion for pouch related disorders and has published widely in the area. He encourages international collaborations within pouch research in an attempt to help provide better care for patients with an ileoanal pouch.
Professor Jimmy Limdi
Jimmy Limdi is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Head of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NE Sector) and Professor of Clinical Gastroenterology at the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester. He is also Hon. Professor at the Manchester Metropolitan University and Deputy Director of Research &Innovation at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester.
Jimmy qualified in 1993 and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology in Yorkshire and Manchester, followed by a period of research at the ICMS, Barts and The London, and University College Hospitals, London and a Visiting Fellowship at Boston University and Harvard, Boston, USA. His clinical research interests in IBD include diet, gut permeability and nutriceuticals, early diagnosis and outcomes, IBD therapeutics, IBD in older persons, neuromotility in IBD exercise and IBD, dysplasia in IBD and women’s health related issues in IBD.
He is a Principal and Chief Investigator to several IBD studies, is Associate editor of the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases journal and Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, holds Editorial board and peer review appointments with leading gastroenterology journals and has published and lectured widely in the field. He has participated in several national and international peer review processes, Delphi panels and co-authored national and international IBD guidelines. He is currently a member of the BSG IBD Committee, BSG IBD section representative to the BSG Education Committee, BSG Education representative to the International Committee and previously BSG representative to the Association of Colo-Proctologists of GB&I and the BSG Food and Function CRG. He was the UK National Representative at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) between 2012 and 2021.