“…In addition, a severe postoperative endoscopic recurrence (Rutgeerts score i3) occurred in 13.8% of Kono versus 34.8% of the Conventional group, but none of the subjects in the Kono group had a Rutgeerts score of i4 (Luglio et al, 2020;Peltrini et al, 2020) After 18 months of surgery all patients underwent colonoscopy at 18 months found that an endoscopic recurrence (Rutgeerts score i2) occurred in 9 patients in the Kono group (25%, also including patients with endoscopic recurrence at 6 months) and 29 in the Conventional group. (67.4%, of whom 27 had known endoscopic recurrence at 6 months) with a mean Rutgeerts score (0-4) of 1.05 1.06 in the Kono group versus (2.30 1.32) in the conventional (Luglio et al, 2020;Kellil et al, 2021) Postoperative clinical recurrence was evaluated after 12 months, 3 patients in the Kono group and 8 patients in the Conventional group had clinical recurrence (8% vs 18%). After 24 months, 4 patients in the Kono group and 13 patients in the Conventional group had clinical recurrence (11.1% vs. 30.2%).…”