PTU-180 Predicting outcomes of biofeedback therapy for faecal incontinence – where ‘good’ practice makes perfect

Biofeedback Therapy Improves Continence in Quiescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients with Ano-Rectal Dysfunction

“…Also, due to the retrospective nature of the study and given that all patients were in stable clinical remission, 7/9 patients had mucosal assessments that were between 6-12 months old prior to the baseline visit. Whilst the infrequency of BFT sessions could also be seen as a limitation, we have previously shown that less-intensive BFT regimes have comparable outcomes to more intensive regimes (14) and the data shown here would also support that.…”

“…Previously, we have reported on a large series of non-IBD FI patients using the same outcome measures, protocols, followup intervals and the outcome data are similarly positive in the present study (14). Our present IBD cohort had demonstrable anorectal dysfunction with sphincter weakness, low resting and squeeze pressures and several other physiological abnormalities which merit further discussion.…”