Former St Mark’s Hospital (The UK National Bowel Hospital) research fellow Guy Worley looks at the pros and cons of opting to have ilieoanal pouch surgery. Is it the answer for UC sufferers and what are the alternatives? He also reviews the latest technical changes in pouch surgery. Finally, he asks if patients are properly informed to give their consent to operations? Guy is now a consultant IBD surgeon at The Royal London Hospital.

Warning – this video contains about 3 minutes of graphic images of robotic pouch surgery as indicated on time line below. There is also a warning in the video if you prefer to bypass this content.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:21 Guy Worley
00:22:53 Robotic Surgery (graphic surgery images)
00:25:05 End of graphic robotic surgery
00:37:46 Q&A