Inflammatory bowel disease

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term that describes disorders involving long-standing (chronic) inflammation of tissues in your digestive tract. Types of IBD include:


  • Ulcerative colitis. This condition involves inflammation and sores (ulcers) along the lining of your large intestine (colon) and rectum.

  • Crohn's disease. This type of IBD is characterized by inflammation of the lining of your digestive tract, which often can involve the deeper layers of the digestive tract. Crohn's disease most commonly affects the small intestine. However, it can also affect the large intestine and uncommonly, the upper gastrointestinal tract.


Signs and symptoms that are common to both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis include:


  • Diarrhea

  • Fatigue

  • Abdominal pain and cramping

  • Blood in your stool

  • Reduced appetite

  • Unintended weight loss


Advanced GI surgery refers to advanced and complicated gastrointestinal tract surgeries that need novel and innovative solutions. These involve complex problems outside Cholecystectomies appendectomies or other common procedures that form day-to-day bulk of regular surgical procedures and practice.

This may involve Pancreatic problems like Chronic pancreatitis, Pancreatic duct stones.

Hepatobiliary diseases such as common bile duct stones, RPC recurrent stones, stumpstones, structures of common bile duct. Choledochal cysts are some conditions that come within this spectrum.

-Diseases of small intestines such as inflammatory bowel disease, tumors, diverticula, Meckels, recurrent adhesion, Perforation, strictures (TB/typhoid/idiopathic).

-Diseases of Large intestines such as Crohn’s, Ulcerative colitis, Slow transit colon, Hirschprung’s diverticula, megacolon volvulus, and numerous such diseases of Colon comprise complicated Gl disorders that frequently require Surgical intervention.

Solitary rectal ulcer, Water-can perineum, high fistula Rectal prolapse are also certain relatively uncommon Rectal disorders that require advanced surgical intervention.



Dr. Suvro Ganguly is one of the best Surgeons in Kolkata in the Department of Oncosurgery with special interest in Coloproctology. He joined Apollo Gleneagles Hospital in December 2018 and is practicing as a Surgeon in the Department of Oncosurgery with special interest in Coloproctology. He specializes in colorectal surgery, cancer surgery, advanced laparoscopy, advanced GI surgery and laser proctology.


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