Long-term severe complications were similar with laparoscopic lavage and primary resection in perforated purulent diverticulitis patients, researchers reported, although recurrence was more frequent ...

(HealthDay News) — Laparoscopic lavage leads to worse outcomes than primary resection in patients with perforated diverticulitis, according to a study published in the Oct. 6 issue of the Journal of ...

Forty patients were treated with the conventional Hartmann approach (resection plus a diverting colostomy) and 43 patients were managed by laparoscopy and peritoneal lavage. Patients in the lavage ...

Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is a fulminant necrotising fasciitis of the perineum and genital region. We report a rare case of FG secondary to retroperitoneal perforation of sigmoid diverticulitis in a ...

What is the preferred method for managing perforated diverticulitis conforming to the Hinchey grade III classification, namely purulent but not feculent fluid within the abdomen? To answer this ...

Q. I developed some pain in my abdomen and my doctor told me I had diverticulitis. What is it, what causes it, and what can be done about it? A. We say diverticulitis is present when outpouchings ...

THE morbidity associated with the surgical treatment of diverticulitis remains high. In the experience of the Lahey Clinic some complication has developed in 30 per cent of the patients with ...

Between September 2004 and July 2006, 10 patients were treated with MSC for toxic tissue damage (Table 1). Follow-up was 1 October 2006. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee at Huddinge ...

A study published in Arthritis & Rheumatism suggests that rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with glucocorticoids and patients with a history of diverticulitis are at a higher risk for GI ...

At the age of 70, 70 percent of the population will have diverticulosis. However, this doesn’t mean that all of these patients will ever experience diverticulitis. So, what’s the difference, and how ...