Surgical morbidity is acceptable following a one or two stage mesentery-including surgery for Crohn’s disease and comparable to mesentery-sparing surgery

Background: It has recently been suggested that mesenteric-including (MI) resection for Crohn’s disease (CD) is associated with reduced surgical recurrence. Whilst there is a perception that MI resection is associated with increased surgical morbidity there is a lack of data to support this. The aim of this study was to perform a retrospective comparison of 30-day morbidity following MI resection and conventional mesenteric-sparing (MS) resection for CD.