Prophylactic cholecystectomy during ileal resection

What is known

• A case-control study found gallstone-disease prevalence requiring cholecystectomy in Crohn's ileitis similar to the general population, concluding synchronous prophylactic cholecystectomy is not justified. ¹
• A nationwide cohort characterized cholecystectomy incidence and risk factors after ileal resection but did not report a prophylactic-cholecystectomy quality-of-life comparison. ²

What is unknown / caveats

• No retrieved study measured quality of life for prophylactic vs no cholecystectomy
• Cholecystectomy-specific evidence is a single case-control study plus a registry. No RCT or SR
• Several retrieved chunks are off-topic (postoperative recurrence prophylaxis, pediatric oncology) and do not bear on this question
• The corpus is silent on quality-of-life endpoints for prophylactic cholecystectomy, so neither "robust benefit" nor "conflicting data" can be substantiated from what was retrieved.

References

1. Chew SS, Ngo TQ, Douglas PR, Newstead GL, Selby W, Solomon MJ. Cholecystectomy in patients with Crohn's ileitis. Dis Colon Rectum. 2003;46(11):1484-8. PMID: 14605566.

2. Goet JC, Beelen EMJ, Biermann KE, Gijsbers AH, Schouten WR, van der Woude CJ, de Vries AC. Cholecystectomy Risk in Crohn's Disease Patients After Ileal Resection: a Long-term Nationwide Cohort Study. J Gastrointest Surg. 2019;23(9):1840-1847. PMID: 30411310.

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