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As I mentioned elsewhere Dr. Steven Gorfine of Manhattan Surgical is probably the most experienced J Pouch surgeon in NYC and was mentored by the late great Dr. Irwin Gelernt, who was widely viewed as the best colorectal surgeon in the nation in the late 1980s/1990s until his death in 1996 (he did the very first K Pouch surgery in the USA). Dr. Gorfine, assisting Gelernt or on his own, did all 4 of my J Pouch surgeries. He has been doing J Pouch surgeries since the late 1980s and I would guess he has done in the many thousands of J Pouch surgeries:

http://www.manhattansurgicalas...orfine-md/index.html

He once told me that J Pouches are like the Jaguar (the British car, not the animal)- “they give a great ride but have to spend a lot of time in the shop getting tuned up and maintained”. Funny guy. He actually did two J Pouch revisions on me because a septum developed in my pouch causing a mechanical issue with evacuation which he fixed both times. He is a problem fixer. He has seen them all.

 

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