Long-term outcomes of colectomy surgery among patients with ulcerative colitis

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Table 3 Fertility questions by gender among participants with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis prior to surgery (N = 330)

	Males	Females
Characteristic	N = 161	N = 169
How has your sexual life changed compared to before surgery?
Better	27 (17 %)	43 (25 %)
Same	69 (43 %)	42 (25 %)
Worse	44 (27 %)	47 (28 %)
Not applicable or do not wish to answer	21 (13 %)	37 (22 %)
Since surgery
I have tried to conceive or have biological children	23 (14 %)	25 (15 %)
I have had difficulties conceiving since my surgery^a	5/23 (22 %)	16/25 (64 %)
Number of children
None	64 (40 %)	72 (43 %)
1–3	90 (56 %)	72 (54 %)
4 or more	6 (4 %)	4 (2 %)
Do not wish to answer	1 (1 %)	1 (1 %)

Having mild disease prior to surgery is largely uncharacteristic of the pre-colectomy UC population, as colectomy is typically indicated for moderate to severe UC, and thus those patients were excluded from the selected analyses that specifically compared pre- and post-colectomy
^aOf patients who tried to conceive children