Radiologic predictors for failure of non-operative management of complicated diverticulitis: a single-centre cohort study.
Stefan ReischlKai Dominik RoehlSebastian ZiegelmayerHelmut FriessMarcus Richard MakowskiDirk WilhelmAlexander Rudolf NovotnyJochen GaaPhilipp-Alexander NeumannPublished in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery (2021)
Patients with length of inflamed bowel >7 cm or abscess formation >1 cm have increased risk for failure of conservative treatment of acute episodes of diverticulitis with contained perforations with subsequent need for urgent surgery. Therefore, conservative treatment of those patients should be monitored with special caution.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- minimally invasive
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- liver failure
- peritoneal dialysis
- combination therapy
- coronary artery disease
- coronary artery bypass
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- surgical site infection
- smoking cessation