Appendectomy does not decrease the risk of future colectomy in UC: results from a large cohort and meta-analysis

Alyssa Parian; Berkeley Limketkai; Joyce Koh; Steven R Brant; Alain Bitton; Judy H Cho; Richard H Duerr; Dermot P McGovern; Deborah D Proctor; Miguel D Regueiro; John D Rioux; Phil Schumm; Kent D Taylor; Mark S Silverberg; A Hillary Steinhart; Ruben Hernaez; Mark Lazarev

doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2016-311550

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Appendectomy does not decrease the risk of future colectomy in UC: results from a large cohort and meta-analysis

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Alyssa Parian Division of Gastroenterology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Berkeley Limketkai Division of Gastroenterology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Joyce Koh Division of Gastroenterology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Steven R Brant Division of Gastroenterology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Alain Bitton Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Judy H Cho Division of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Richard H Duerr Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Dermot P McGovern Division of Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Deborah D Proctor Division of Digestive Disease, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Miguel D Regueiro Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
John D Rioux Division of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Phil Schumm Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Kent D Taylor Division of Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Mark S Silverberg Division of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
A Hillary Steinhart Division of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ruben Hernaez Division of Gastroenterology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Mark Lazarev Division of Gastroenterology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Alyssa Parian, Division of Gastroenterology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Building A-502, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA; Aparian1{at}jhmi.edu

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Parian A, Limketkai B, Koh J, et al

Appendectomy does not decrease the risk of future colectomy in UC: results from a large cohort and meta-analysis

Gut 2017;66:1390-1397.

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Received January 31, 2016
Revised March 15, 2016
Accepted March 21, 2016
First published April 13, 2016.

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October 23, 2017

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