The Crohn’s Stricture: Surgery or Struggle?

Sunday, May 10, 2026

12:30 PM - 1:20 PM ET

Co-Moderator(s)

Lisa Cannon, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Rochester Medical Center
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY, United States

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Muneera Rehana Kapadia, MD

Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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CME: .75 hours
Self-

Assessment: .75 hours

This symposium will cover Crohn's fibrostenotic disease. We will address controversies in timing of surgery in biologic-naive patients with isolated TI stricture, as well as new data surrounding anastomotic architecture. We will discuss surgical management and bowel-sparing strictureplasty techniques in multifocal jejunoileal stricturing disease. We will then discuss atypical strictures including duodenal and colonic.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Recognize the indications for surgery in stricturing Crohn's disease.
Identify the curent state of recommendations surrounding anastomotic architecture.
Describe the indications for strictureplasty in multifocal jejunoileal Crohn's disease, as well as different strictureplasty techniques.
Explain the management of duodenal strictures and colonic strictures.

Presentations:

12:30 PM - 12:32 PM ET

Introduction
12:33 PM - 12:41 PM ET

Management of isolated TI Stricture in a Biologic Naive Patient
Faculty: Vitaliy Poylin, MD, MBA – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
12:42 PM - 12:50 PM ET

Endoscopic Management of Crohn's Strictures: Who, How & When?
Faculty: Erin Forster
12:51 PM - 12:59 PM ET

Surgical Management of Multifocal Jejunoileal Strictures and Duodenal Strictures
Faculty: Kinga S. Olortegui, MD, MS, FACS – UChicago Medicine
1:00 PM - 1:08 PM ET

Take it or Leave it: Updates on Managing the Mesentery During Resection for Crohn's
Faculty: Jonathan Stem, MD – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1:09 PM - 1:20 PM ET

Discussion
Faculty: Lisa Marie Cannon, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Rochester Medical Center
Faculty: Muneera Rehana Kapadia, MD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Faculty: Kinga S. Olortegui, MD, MS, FACS – UChicago Medicine
Faculty: Vitaliy Poylin, MD, MBA – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine