Massachusetts General Hospital

Biography

Liliana Bordeianou, MD, MPH, is a board-certified colorectal surgeon and the codirector of the Pelvic Floor Disorders Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Bordeianou specializes in treating patients with Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, and colon and rectal cancer, all with special emphasis on minimally invasive procedures such as laparoscopy and endoscopy and on sphincter preservation techniques. She is also an expert in the surgical management of pelvic floor disorders such as fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse and constipation.

In 2006, Dr. Bordeianou cofounded Mass General's Pelvic Floor Disorders Service, which offers minimally invasive, surgical and non-surgical treatment options for the full range of pelvic floor disorders. She also pioneered transanal endoscopic microsurgery, a minimally invasive procedure that treats colonoscopically unresectable rectal polyps and early rectal cancer without any abdominal incisions.

Dr. Bordeianou has published extensively in academic research journals on colorectal surgery. She lectures both locally and internationally on invited topics including ulcerative and Crohn's colitis, rectal cancer, diverticulitis and pelvic floor disorders.

In addition, she is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), a fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (FASCRS) and a member of numerous other surgical societies including the International Society University Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ISUCRS), Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the New England Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (NESCS).

ResearchDr. Bordeianou's research interests include colon and rectal cancers, diverticular, inflammatory bowel and anorectal diseases, and pelvic floor physiology and disorders.

Publications

View my most recent publications at PubMed

Total Proctocolectomy with Ileoanal J-Pouch Reconstruction Utilizing the Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Approach.
Bordeianou L, Hodin R.
J Gastrointest Surg. 2009 Jul 15. [Epub ahead of print]

Preoperative infliximab treatment in patients with ulcerative and indeterminate colitis does not increase rate of conversion to emergent and multistep abdominal surgery.
Bordeianou L, Kunitake H, Shellito P, Hodin R.
Int J Colorectal Dis. 2009 Oct 2. [Epub ahead of print]

Perioperative treatment with infliximab in patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis is not associated with an increased rate of postoperative complications.
Kunitake H, Hodin R, Shellito PC, Sands BE, Korzenik J, Bordeianou L.
J Gastrointest Surg. 2008 Oct;12(10):1730-6

Anal resting pressures at manometry correlate with the Fecal Incontinence Severity Index and with presence of sphincter defects on ultrasound.
Bordeianou L, Lee KY, Rockwood T, Baxter NN, Lowry A, Mellgren A, Parker S.
Dis Colon Rectum. 2008 Jul;51(7):1010-4.

Coordinated care offers freedom from pelvic floor disorders

With the help of coordinated, multidisciplinary care provided by physicians in the MGH Pelvic Floor Disorder Service, 39-year-old patient Nicole Ortuno is once again living a normal, healthy life.

Innovations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Digestive Healthcare Center, including clinical trials of new biologic medications, as well new minimally invasive surgical techniques, is helping expand treatment and management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.