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Quality of life and chronic pain four years after gastrointestinal surgery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
PURPOSE: Little is known about the prevalence of chronic postsurgical pain after gastrointestinal surgery. This study was designed to assess the prevalence of chronic pain and quality of life in a cohort of patients who underwent surgery for benign and ...
Bruce, Julie, Krukowski, Zygmunt H.
core   +1 more source

How to Do an Emergency Robotic Hartmann's Procedure in a Morbidly Obese Patient

open access: yes
ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Gavin J. Carmichael   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Three-stage laparoscopic surgery in a morbidly obese patient with Hinchey III diverticulitis: a case report

open access: yesSurgical Case Reports, 2019
Background Perforated diverticulitis with purulent peritonitis (Hinchey III diverticulitis) has traditionally been treated with a Hartmann’s procedure in order to avoid the considerable postoperative morbidity and mortality associated with one-stage ...
Takako Tanaka   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Colovesicular Fistula [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A fistula is an atypical connection between two epithelial surfaces, in the case of an enterovesical fistula between the urinary and gastrointestinal systems. These may be the result of a number of causes including: 1.
Attard, Caroline   +1 more
core  

Manage terminal ileum diverticulitis comparably to diverticulitis elsewhere [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A critical appraisal and clinical application of Park HC, Lee BH. The management of terminal ileum diverticulitis. Am Surg.
Yip, James
core   +2 more sources

Gut microbiome composition and metabolic activity in women with diverticulitis

open access: yesNature Communications
The etiopathogenesis of diverticulitis, among the most common gastrointestinal diagnoses, remains largely unknown. By leveraging stool collected within a large prospective cohort, we performed shotgun metagenomic sequencing and untargeted metabolomics ...
Wenjie Ma   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

How can you help prevent a recurrence of diverticulitis? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A high-fiber diet is often prescribed after recovery from acute diverticulitis, based on extrapolation from epidemiologic data showing an association between low-fiber diets and diverticulosis (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, expert opinion).
Jamieson, Barbara, Weisberger, Lise
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Avoiding or reversing Hartmann's procedure provides improved quality of life after perforated diverticulitis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
INTRODUCTION: The existing literature regarding acute perforated diverticulitis only reports about short-term outcome; long-term following outcomes have not been assessed before.
Busschbach, J.J. (Jan) van   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Patients with computed tomography-proven acute diverticulitis require follow-up to exclude colorectal cancer

open access: yesIntestinal Research, 2017
Background/Aims: Traditionally, patients with acute diverticulitis undergo follow-up endoscopy to exclude colorectal cancer (CRC). However, its usefulness has been debated in this era of high-resolution computed tomography (CT) diagnosis. We assessed the
Shafquat Zaman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Off-hour admission and mortality risk for 28 specific diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 251 cohorts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background: A considerable amount of studies have examined the relationship between off-hours (weekends and nights) admission and mortality risk for various diseases, but the results remain equivocal.
Cao, Shiyi   +7 more
core   +1 more source

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