History of the Ileoanal pouch -- Patient selection -- Pouch configuration -- Pouch lengthening techniques -- Minimally Invasive Pouch Surgery : Tips and Tricks -- The Complicated pouch -- Ileal Pouch Salvage, Pouch Failure and Redo Surgery -- Crohn’s disease in the ileoanal pouch – management -- Microbiology of the ileoanal pouch and managing pouchitis -- Ileoanal Pouch for Familial Adenomatous Polyposis -- The role of the ileoanal pouch nurse practitioner -- Optimising pouch function using Biofeedback therapy -- The Koch pouch -- Ileorectal anastomosis for Ulcerative Colitis -- The lived experience.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of surgery that results in creating an ileoanal pouch or continent ileostomy. It deals with the entire journey of pouch surgery starting from patient selection and counselling to technical tips and tricks and ending in managing pouch function and failure. Containing a patient experience section this volume helps clinicians better understand what a patient expects from the ileoanal pouch. This is a very specialised topic but one that is covered very poorly and this book has the potential to consolidate all that is known about the topic to provide a comprehensive overview on the surgery and its consequences. .