BACKGROUND Surgical treatment of complicated colonic diverticular disease is still debatable. The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the outcome of laparoscopic sigmoid colectomy in patients with diverticulitis. Patients offered laparoscopic surgery presented with acute complicated diverticulitis (Hinchey type I, II, III), chronically recurrent diverticulitis, bleeding, or sigmoid st...

BACKGROUND Acute diverticulitis is a broad spectrum of diseases with highly varying mortality and need for surgery. The aim of this study was to create an accurate staging of diverticulitis, which could be used both preoperatively and intraoperatively to predict outcome and guide treatment. METHODS This was a retrospective study of patients treated for diverticulitis in a secondary and tertia...

Abstract Aims Debate remains regarding management of complicated diverticulitis. The WSES acute diverticulitis working group published in 2015 a CT-guided classification left colon diverticulitis, divided into uncomplicated (Stage 0) and 1a-4). Using this classification, we reviewed our CT-proven colonic Methods A single-centre retrospective review over 12 months based on the classification. Re...

Objectives. The objectives of this study are to highlight the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties in patients with complicated acute colonic diverticulosis. Methods. group comprised 40 hospitalized Second Surgical Clinic Emergency County Hospital Craiova, Romania, through emergency service between 2015 2021. Regarding sex distribution diverticular disease studied, there was a predominance m...

Abscess formation in perforated diverticulitis is most commonly confined to the pelvis, with other intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal locations rarer literature. Presented here case of a 63-year-old male who was diagnosed which manifested multiple intra- extra-abdominal abscesses. These were identified on abdominopelvic computed tomography include presacral abscess, bilateral psoas abscesses, ...

INTRODUCTION To prevent an acute surgery, classic indications for elective sigmoid resections concerning diverticulitis have usually been based on the number of recurrent episodes. Since 2005 these indications have been challenged, primarily because the majority of patients first present themselves with acute complications at their first episode. METHODS Between 1990 and 2000, a cohort analys...

Diverticulitis is one of the leading indications for elective colonic resections although there is an ongoing controversial discussion about classification, stage-dependent therapeutic options, and therapy settings. As there is a rising trend towards conservative therapy for diverticular disease even in patients with a complicated form of diverticulitis, we provide a compact overview of current...