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Original Source: Hospitalization or Ambulatory Treatment of Acute Diverticulitis
The purpose of 01DIVER is to evaluate efficacy and safety of a home treatment protocol for non complicated diverticulitis compared with management in the hospital. The hypothesis is that a ambulatory treatment with oral antibiotic and progressive introduction of diet is not inferior to the conservative management in hospital in patients with acute not complicated sigmoid diverticulitis, shown by contrast enhanced CT scan. Patients are prospectively randomized to conservative an...
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Acute Diverticulitis: Clinical and Laboratory Features
How does acute diverticulitis generally present in most patients, and is there an optimal diagnostic method that most clinicians use? Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Review of new evidence to treat colonic diverticulitis may help doctors
Recent evidence and new treatments for colonic diverticulitis that may help clinicians manage and treat the disease are summarized in a review in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Improved Understanding Of Colonic Diverticulitis May Lead To New Treatments
Recent evidence and new treatments for colonic diverticulitis that may help clinicians manage and treat the disease are summarized in a review in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Diverticu...
Reviewers question the use of antibiotics for uncomplicated diverticulitis
Cochrane Database Syst Rev2012;11:CD009092Antibiotics are a standard treatment for uncomplicated diverticulitis, recommended by guidelines. A careful search for supporting evidence found just three......
More problems for weekend gastrointestinal surgery
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients who have emergency surgery to treat diverticulitis are slightly more likely to have complications following the procedure if they went to the hospital on the w...
Suspected left sided diverticulitis
Learning pointsLeft sided diverticulitis can be accurately diagnosed by clinical findings and laboratory tests in only a few patients so imaging tests are usually necessary to confirm the...
Risks, Costs High in Diverticulitis Surgery (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Elective colectomy outcomes vary by indication, with unexpectedly high risks and costs for diverticular disease, a national analysis suggested.
New markers could improve treatment and survival in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
(Elhuyar Fundazioa) Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the most common pediatric cancer, has been the subject of study in the Ph.D. thesis of ElixabetLópez.In the work entitled New genetic markers for tr...
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PURPOSE: Previous authors have suggested that a diverticulum of the vermiform appendix has a higher risk of perforation than acute appendicitis. Therefore, this study compared appendiceal diverticulit...
MR enterography of perforated acute Meckel diverticulitis.
Meckel diverticulum is the most common congenital anomaly of the small intestine that generally comes to attention due to a variety of complications, such as gastrointestinal tract bleeding, bowel obs...
Diagnostic Value of Inflammation Markers in Predicting Perforation in Acute Sigmoid Diverticulitis.
BACKGROUND: The importance of inflammation markers in predicting perforation in acute sigmoid diverticulitis is not well known. Predicting perforation by clinical examination alone may be hazardous. I...
Elderly patient with acute, left lower abdominal pain: perforated jejunal diverticulitis (2010:7b).
An elderly patient with acute, left, lower abdominal pain is described, for whom the diagnosis of perforated jejunal diverticulitis was established by computed tomography (CT). The presence of a jejun...
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Conservative treatment of uncomplicated or mild diverticulitis usually includes antibiotic therapy. It is, however, uncertain whether patients with acute diverticulitis indeed be...
