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To the Editor: As Rutgeerts et al. mention in their article about infliximab for ulcerative colitis (Dec. 8 issue),¹ nocturnal fecal incontinence in patients who have an ileoanal pouch is, indeed, an "inconvenience" that is reminiscent of their presurgery symptoms of colitis (but without the debilitating disease). However, Hahnloser et al. do not state the overall prevalence as 24 percent.² Their data actually show that the proportion of patients with more than two episodes of nocturnal staining per week was 5 percent. The proportion increased to 24 percent only after 15 years, by which time the population had aged to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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