Posts by Liliana G. Bordeianou, MD, MPH, FACS, FASCRS
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New Scoring System Allows Assessment of the Severity of Ileoanal Pouch Syndrome
Paul Cavallaro, MD, Liliana Bordeianou, MD, MPH, and colleagues developed the ileoanal pouch syndrome (IPS) severity score, which is unique among postoperative bowel function scores in that it was entirely developed in a population of patients with pouches and items weighted differently based on patient input.
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Women With More Severe Chronic Constipation Have More Urogenital Symptoms
In the first study of its kind, Milena M. Weinstein, MD, Liliana G. Bordeianou, MD, MPH, and Marcus V. Ortega, MD, found that in women with pelvic floor disorders, the presence of severe chronic constipation is associated with a significantly higher prevalence of urogenital symptoms, notably painful intercourse.
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Diverticular Disease Increases Risk of Incisional Hernia After Elective Colectomy
Numa P. Perez, MD, a general surgery resident, Paul M. Cavallaro, MD, a research resident, and colleagues have correlated diverticular disease with incisional hernias after elective colectomies, including those performed via laparoscopy.
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IMPACT: A Standardized Test for Assessment of Pelvic Floor Disorders
In this video, Liliana Bordeianou, MD, MPH, site director of Massachusetts General Hospital Colorectal Surgery, discusses IMPACT, the movement she and her team have started to develop a common language across disciplines that can be used to assess patients with pelvic floor disorders.
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Patient-Driven Consensus Effort Defines Ileoanal Pouch Syndrome
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital helped lead an international, patient-driven consensus study that identified the functional outcomes patients consider important after pouch surgery—and defined "ileoanal pouch syndrome," a constellation of symptoms and consequences specific to having an ileoanal pouch.
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J-Pouch Patient Studies Establish First Outcome Measures
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers are establishing the first set of comprehensive, severity-ranked J-pouch surgery functional outcomes measures and defining J-pouch syndrome.
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Surgeons Should Evaluate More Than Fecal Incontinence, Frequency After J-Pouch Creation
Patients with ulcerative colitis who undergo ileal pouch-anal anastomosis in a J-pouch configuration exhibit an amalgamation of postoperative symptoms more complex than fecal incontinence and frequency of bowel movements.
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IMPACT: A Standardized Tool for Assessment of Pelvic Floor Disorders
A consortium of professional societies caring for patients with different pelvic floor disorders (PVD) has reached consensus on standardized measures for initial assessment of the most commonly reported symptoms of PVDs.
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Should the Guidelines for Operative Management of Perforated Diverticulitis Be Revised?
For emergent management of diverticulitis, partial colectomy and creation of a primary anastomosis with proximal diversion is substantially more hazardous than creation of an end colostomy (the Hartmann procedure), particularly when performed by non-colorectal surgeons.
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New Research Further Quantifies Benefits of Preventative Colonoscopy Screening
Patients who had colorectal cancer diagnosed through screening or surveillance had a significantly better prognosis than patients who underwent colonoscopy because of symptoms.
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Converting Laparoscopic Colon Cancer Surgery to Open Surgery Does Not Impair Survival
When laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer must be converted to open surgery, survival is comparable to that with planned laparoscopic surgery and planned open surgery.
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Internal Intussusception, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Pelvic Floor Dyssynergia: Contributors to Obstructed Defecation Syndrome
A prospective study at Massachusetts General Hospital highlights the importance of excluding diagnoses that may contribute to obstructed defecation syndrome before considering surgical repair of intussusception.
Biography
Liliana Bordeianou, MD, MPH, is a board-certified colorectal surgeon and the Chief of the Colorectal Surgery Program at Massachusetts General Hospital . She is also the co-founder and the co-director of the Pelvic Floor Disorders Center . She is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Bordeianou specializes in treating patients with colorectal cancer, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, and pelvic floor disorders. She performs minimally invasive procedures such as robotic and laparoscopic colorectal resections, pelvic floor reconstructions, transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) and transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS). She has a special interest in sphincter preservation techniques for low lying rectal cancer and for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dr. Bordeianou is also a national expert in the surgical management of pelvic floor disorders such as fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse and constipation.
Dr. Bordeianou has published extensively in academic research journals on colorectal surgery. She lectures both locally and internationally on invited topics including ulcerative and Crohn's colitis, rectal cancer, diverticulitis and pelvic floor disorders.
In addition, she is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), a fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (FASCRS) and a member of numerous other surgical societies including the International Society University Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ISUCRS), Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the New England Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (NESCS).
Digestive Healthcare at Mass General
The Massachusetts General Hospital Digestive Healthcare Center is a collaborative practice of gastroenterologists, endoscopists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, hepatologists, oncologists and radiation oncologists dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of digestive diseases.