Long-term follow-up of a multicentre cohort study on laparoscopic peritoneal lavage for perforated diverticulitis.
D SneidersDaniël P V LambrichtsH A SwankC F J M Blanken-PeetersS W NienhuijsM J P M GovaertM F GerhardsA G M HoofwijkR J I BoskerJ D W van der BiltB H M HeijnenH O Ten Cate HoedemakerG J KleinrensinkJ F LangeW A BemelmanPublished in: Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (2019)
Long-term diverticulitis recurrence, re-intervention and readmission rates after laparoscopic lavage were high. A complicated outcome was also seen in patients who had initially been treated successfully with laparoscopic lavage with relevant events occurring up to 6 years after initial surgery.