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Long B, Werner J, Gottlieb M. Emergency medicine updates: Acute diverticulitis. Am J Emerg Med 2024; 76:1-6. [PMID: 37956503 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2023.10.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Acute diverticulitis is a condition commonly seen in the emergency department (ED). Therefore, it is important for emergency medicine clinicians to be aware of the current evidence regarding the diagnosis and management of this disease. OBJECTIVE This paper evaluates key evidence-based updates concerning acute diverticulitis for the emergency clinician. DISCUSSION Diverticulitis is a complication of diverticulosis and most commonly affects the sigmoid and descending colon in Western countries. History and examination can suggest the diagnosis, with abdominal pain and tenderness in the left lower quadrant being the most common symptom and sign, respectively. Change in bowel habits and fever may also occur. Laboratory testing may demonstrate leukocytosis or an elevated C-reactive protein. Imaging options can include computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis with intravenous contrast, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or ultrasound (US), though most classification systems for diverticulitis incorporate CT findings. While the majority of diverticulitis cases are uncomplicated, complications may affect up to 25% of patients. Treatment of complicated diverticulitis requires antibiotics and surgical consultation. Antibiotics are not required in select patients with uncomplicated diverticulitis. Appropriate patients for supportive care without antibiotics should be well-appearing, have pain adequately controlled, be able to tolerate oral intake, be able to follow up, have no complications, and have no immunocompromise or severe comorbidities. CONCLUSIONS An understanding of literature updates can improve the ED care of patients with acute diverticulitis.
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- Brit Long
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA.
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, UCSF Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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Leifeld L, Germer CT, Böhm S, Dumoulin FL, Frieling T, Kreis M, Meining A, Labenz J, Lock JF, Ritz JP, Schreyer A, Kruis W. S3-Leitlinie Divertikelkrankheit/Divertikulitis – Gemeinsame Leitlinie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie (DGAV). ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GASTROENTEROLOGIE 2022; 60:613-688. [PMID: 35388437 DOI: 10.1055/a-1741-5724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Ludger Leifeld
- Medizinische Klinik 3 - Gastroenterologie und Allgemeine Innere Medizin, St. Bernward Krankenhaus, Hildesheim, apl. Professur an der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral-, Transplantations-, Gefäß- und Kinderchirurgie, Zentrum für Operative Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg
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- Spital Bülach, Spitalstrasse 24, 8180 Bülach, Schweiz
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- Medizinische Klinik II, Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie, Infektiologie, Neurogastroenterologie, Hämatologie, Onkologie und Palliativmedizin HELIOS Klinikum Krefeld
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- Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Gefäßchirurgie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik 2, Zentrum für Innere Medizin (ZIM), Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg
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- Abteilung für Innere Medizin, Evang. Jung-Stilling-Krankenhaus, Siegen
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral-, Transplantations-, Gefäß- und Kinderchirurgie, Zentrum für Operative Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg
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- Klinik für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie, Helios Klinikum Schwerin
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- Institut für diagnostische und interventionelle Radiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane Klinikum Brandenburg, Brandenburg, Deutschland
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- Medizinische Fakultät, Universität Köln, Köln, Deutschland
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Fugazzola P, Ceresoli M, Coccolini F, Gabrielli F, Puzziello A, Monzani F, Amato B, Sganga G, Sartelli M, Menichetti F, Puglisi GA, Tartaglia D, Carcoforo P, Avenia N, Kluger Y, Paolillo C, Zago M, Leppäniemi A, Tomasoni M, Cobianchi L, Dal Mas F, Improta M, Moore EE, Peitzman AB, Sugrue M, Agnoletti V, Fraga GP, Weber DG, Damaskos D, Abu-Zidan FM, Wani I, Kirkpatrick AW, Pikoulis M, Pararas N, Tan E, Broek RT, Maier RV, Davies RJ, Kashuk J, Shelat VG, Mefire AC, Augustin G, Magnone S, Poiasina E, De Simone B, Chiarugi M, Biffl W, Baiocchi GL, Catena F, Ansaloni L. The WSES/SICG/ACOI/SICUT/AcEMC/SIFIPAC guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute left colonic diverticulitis in the elderly. World J Emerg Surg 2022; 17:5. [PMID: 35063008 PMCID: PMC8781436 DOI: 10.1186/s13017-022-00408-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 11/27/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Acute left colonic diverticulitis (ALCD) in the elderly presents with unique epidemiological features when compared with younger patients. The clinical presentation is more nuanced in the elderly population, having higher in-hospital and postoperative mortality. Furthermore, geriatric comorbidities are a risk factor for complicated diverticulitis. Finally, elderly patients have a lower risk of recurrent episodes and, in case of recurrence, a lower probability of requiring urgent surgery than younger patients. The aim of the present work is to study age-related factors that may support a unique approach to the diagnosis and treatment of this problem in the elderly when compared with the WSES guidelines for the management of acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis. During the 1° Pisa Workshop of Acute Care & Trauma Surgery held in Pisa (Italy) in September 2019, with the collaboration of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), the Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery (SICG), the Italian Hospital Surgeons Association (ACOI), the Italian Emergency Surgery and Trauma Association (SICUT), the Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care (AcEMC) and the Italian Society of Surgical Pathophysiology (SIFIPAC), three panel members presented a number of statements developed for each of the four themes regarding the diagnosis and management of ALCD in older patients, formulated according to the GRADE approach, at a Consensus Conference where a panel of experts participated. The statements were subsequently debated, revised, and finally approved by the Consensus Conference attendees. The current paper is a summary report of the definitive guidelines statements on each of the following topics: diagnosis, management, surgical technique and antibiotic therapy.
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- Paola Fugazzola
- IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, General Surgery, Pavia, Italy.
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- General Surgery Department, School of Medicine and Surgery, Milano-Bicocca University, Monza, Italy
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- Emergency Surgery Unit, State University of Pisa, Cisanello Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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- General Surgery Department, School of Medicine and Surgery, Milano-Bicocca University, Monza, Italy
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- Department of Surgery and Transplants, AOU San Giovanni di Dio and Ruggi d'Aragona, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
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- Geriatrics Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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- Emergency Surgery and Trauma, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Emergency Surgery Unit, State University of Pisa, Cisanello Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, S. Anna University Hospital and University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Medical School, General Surgery and Surgical Specialties Unit, S. Maria University Hospital University of Perugia, Terni, Italy
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- Division of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
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- Emergency Room Brescia Spedali Civili General Hospital, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Robotic and Emergency Surgery, Manzoni Hospital, ASST Lecco, Lecco, Italy
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- Abdominal Center, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, General Surgery, Pavia, Italy
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- IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, General Surgery, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Management, Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
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- Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC-Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Donegal Clinical Research Academy, Emergency Surgery Outcome Project, Letterkenny University Hospital, Donegal, Ireland
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- Surgery Department, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM), Unicamp Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Department of General Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Minimal Access and General Surgery, Government Gousia Hospital, Sringar, Kashmir, India
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- General, Acute Care, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, and Trauma Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- 3Rd Department of Surgery, Attiko Hospital, MSc "Global Health-Disaster Medicine", National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
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- General Surgery, Dr Sulaiman Al Habib/Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Surgery, Assia Medical Group, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Surgery, University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
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- General Surgery I, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
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- General Surgery I, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
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- Department of General and Metabolic Surgery, Poissy and Saint Germain en Laye Hospitals, Poissy, France
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- Emergency Surgery Unit, State University of Pisa, Cisanello Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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- Trauma Surgery Department, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of General Surgery, ASST Cremona, University of Brescia, Cremona, Italy
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- General and Emergency Surgery Department, Bufalini Hospital, AUSL Romagna, Cesena, Italy
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- IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, General Surgery, Pavia, Italy
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Cerdán Santacruz C, Muriel Álvarez P, Roig Ferreruela G, Merichal Resina M, Pinillos Somalo AI, Mestres Petit N, Sierra Grañón JE, Olsina Kissler JJ. Interval colonoscopy following acute diverticulitis should not be discouraged yet: results from a retrospective cohort. Surg Endosc 2021; 35:6819-6826. [PMID: 33398588 DOI: 10.1007/s00464-020-08187-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Although included in some guidelines, the recommendation of interval colonoscopy after an acute diverticulitis (AD) episode has recently been questioned. In this study, we evaluated the incidence of colon cancer during the follow-up of an episode of AD. METHODS A retrospective review was carried out of patients with conservatively treated AD at our Institution (January 2011 to December 2018) with or without endoscopic study. Patients who had no colonoscopy performed were followed for two years. The demographic, clinical, radiological, follow-up and anatomopathological records were analysed. We determined CT scan validity for the differential diagnosis of CC and AD; sensibility, specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios were calculated. Patients lost to follow-up and patients who had had colonoscopy in the previous three years were excluded. RESULTS This study included 285 patients with a mean age of 59 years. A total of 225 interval colonoscopies were performed and 60 patients without colonoscopy were followed up. There were 19 CC (6.7%) diagnosed, 14 with interval colonoscopy and 5 during follow-up; 8 (42.1%) happened in patients who had had an episode of uncomplicated AD. Although CT scan accuracy is high, 87.7%, positive and negative likelihood ratios were low, 4.67 and 0.64, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Interval colonoscopy should still be advisable after an episode of AD. The rationale for this statement is based on a non-negligible rate of hidden CC and an important uncertainty in the differential diagnosis.
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- Carlos Cerdán Santacruz
- Colorectal Surgery Unit, General Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain.,Universidad de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreatic Surgery Unit, General Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain. .,Institut de Recerca Biomédica de Lleida, Experimental Surgery Department, Av. Prat de la Riba 44, 4º 5ª, Lleida, Spain.
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- Colorectal Surgery Unit, General Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain.,Universidad de Lleida, Lleida, Spain.,Institut de Recerca Biomédica de Lleida, Experimental Surgery Department, Av. Prat de la Riba 44, 4º 5ª, Lleida, Spain
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- Colorectal Surgery Unit, General Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain
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- Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreatic Surgery Unit, General Surgery Department, Hospital Universitario Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain.,Universidad de Lleida, Lleida, Spain.,Institut de Recerca Biomédica de Lleida, Experimental Surgery Department, Av. Prat de la Riba 44, 4º 5ª, Lleida, Spain
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