Common colectomy procedure renders women patients infertile: study

... Colectomy with ileal pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA), an operation for ulcerative colitis, causes infertility in as much as 50 per cent of female patients that undergo the operation, a study, by researchers from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has found. The infertility rate drops down to 15 per cent if the patients depend on medicines to cure their ulcerative colitis, the study said. ...