Unmet needs in treatment of symptomatic uncomplicated diverticular disease and prevention of recurrent acute diverticulitis: a scoping review [PDF]
Therapeutic Advances in GastroenterologyBackground: Diverticular disease (DD) represents a common gastrointestinal condition that poses a heavy burden on healthcare systems worldwide. A high degree of uncertainty surrounds the therapeutic approaches for the control of symptoms in patients with
Marilia Carabotti +5 more
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Sigmoid Diverticular Perforation in a 23-year-old patient: A Case Report [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Colorectal Research, 2023 Introduction: Diverticulitis is inflammation of one or more adjacent diverticulums and the surrounding colon. Patients with diverticulitis typically present acute or subacute abdominal pain in the left lower quadrant.
Taygun Gülşen +2 more
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Diagnosis and management of acute colonic diverticulitis: results of a survey among Korean gastroenterologists [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2023 Background/Aims Some management strategies for acute colonic diverticulitis remain controversial in Korean real-world practice because their clinical features differ from those in the West.
Jae Gon Lee +9 more
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Contemporary review of risk-stratified management in acute uncomplicated and complicated diverticulitis [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Acute colonic diverticulitis is a common clinical condition. Severity of the disease is based on clinical, laboratory, and radiological investigations and dictates the need for medical or surgical intervention.
Boermeester, Marja A. +3 more
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Antibiotics for acute diverticulitis. [PDF]
Can Fam PhysicianKolber MR, Wong CK.
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Colonic diverticulosis - diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties
Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences, 2022 Objectives. The objectives of this study are to highlight the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties in patients with complicated acute colonic diverticulosis. Methods.
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Characteristics of predominantly right-sided colonic diverticulitis without need for colectomy
BMC Surgery, 2020 Background In China, diverticulitis is more often located in the right colon, mainly in the cecum and ascending colon. Here we study the characteristics of acute colonic diverticulitis and compare various treatments for acute right-sided colonic ...
Zhi Chen, Bing Zhang, Dan Wu, Ye Jin
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Acute Colonic Diverticulitis [PDF]
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2018 Acute colonic diverticulitis is a gastrointestinal condition frequently encountered by primary care practitioners, hospitalists, surgeons, and gastroenterologists. Clinical presentation ranges from mild abdominal pain to peritonitis with sepsis. It can often be diagnosed on the basis of clinical features alone, but imaging is necessary in more severe ...
Sophia M, Swanson, Lisa L, Strate
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PLoS ONE, 2023 This study aimed to develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) using the EfficientNet algorithm for the automated classification of acute appendicitis, acute diverticulitis, and normal appendix and to evaluate its diagnostic performance.
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Tubercular Meckel diverticulitis mimicking acute appendicitis
Saudi Journal for Health Sciences, 2023 Meckel's diverticulum (MD) is usually silent and asymptomatic. Acute diverticulitis, perforation, intestinal obstruction, hemorrhage, and other complications are seen in
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