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Terapéutica en diverticulitis aguda: una actualización de la evidencia disponible
La prevalencia de enfermedad diverticular en Chile se estima en 28% y cada vez es más frecuente su presentación como diverticulitis complicada. Durante los últimos años ha surgido evidencia que ha hecho replantear el manejo de la diverticulitis aguda ...
Álvaro José Morales Palma+3 more
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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
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The Surgical Infection Society revised guidelines on the management of intra-abdominal infection [PDF]
Background: Previous evidence-based guidelines on the management of intra-abdominal infection (IAI) were published by the Surgical Infection Society (SIS) in 1992, 2002, and 2010. At the time the most recent guideline was released, the plan was to update
Chang, Phillip K+11 more
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Case Report: Intestinal Diverticulum in a Golden Retriever
A 1‐year‐old female spayed Golden Retriever presented with a 2‐day history of vomiting and a chronic 4‐month history of intermittent diarrhoea. Owners elected to pursue exploratory laparotomy where a firm, tan, irregular structure was observed in the right caudal abdomen with a small adhesion to an adjacent loop of jejunum. The structure was removed en
Emily Eppler, Alyssa Motz
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Epiploic Appendagitis Mimicking Recurrent Diverticulitis
Here, we report a case in which a patient with an extensive history of diverticulitis of the sigmoid colon presented with left lower quadrant abdominal pain similar to her previous episodes of diverticulitis.
R. Plummer+3 more
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Canonical Correlation Analysis for Analyzing Sequences of Medical Billing Codes [PDF]
We propose using canonical correlation analysis (CCA) to generate features from sequences of medical billing codes. Applying this novel use of CCA to a database of medical billing codes for patients with diverticulitis, we first demonstrate that the CCA embeddings capture meaningful relationships among the codes.
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ABSTRACT Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are common in patients with Williams–Beuren syndrome (WBS), but their prevalence and possible causes are not yet fully known. This study assessed GI symptoms' prevalence and their possible origin by performing a predefined set of tests in adult WBS patients.
Maria Francesca Bedeschi+10 more
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Background Acute diverticulitis is commonly misdiagnosed among patients with acute abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED). There are predictive scores that assist in the diagnosis of acute left-sided diverticulitis, but no scoring system is ...
Siriwimon Tantarattanapong+2 more
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Non-Surgical Treatment of Colonic Diverticulitis (a Review)
Colonic diverticulitis poses an adverse medical and social problem for its prevalence, variety of clinical manifestations and complications and is becoming menacing as the people’s life expectancy reaches beyond 80 years.
Sh. V. Timerbulatov+2 more
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Biased Encouragements and Heterogeneous Effects in an Instrumental Variable Study of Emergency General Surgical Outcomes [PDF]
We investigate the efficacy of surgical versus non-surgical management for two gastrointestinal conditions, colitis and diverticulitis, using observational data. We deploy an instrumental variable design with surgeons' tendencies to operate as an instrument.
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