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strange posted:

I'm sorry; takedown means: connecting the temp loop ileostomy of the small intestine to the newly created J pouch and doing away with the Stoma and no longer requiring the use of colostomy bags,

Takedown is a term I picked up via this forum, otherwise, like yourself, prior to using this forum I'd never heard of the such an expression.

Just to clarify a bit, the loop ileostomy is upstream from the J-pouch, and doesn't need to get connected to the pouch. The loop is a bypass that (usually) lets the stool out before it can travel the rest of the way to the pouch. The pouch is already connected up at that stage, but generally has no stool to manage. "Takedown" refers to detaching ("taking down") the loop of bowel from the abdominal wall and closing up the hole in the bowel that had formed the stoma.

Earlier in the three-stage process many folks have an *end* ileostomy, and that does subsequently get connected to the rectal stump when the pouch is constructed.

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