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Home treatment of uncomplicated acute diverticulitis.
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- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the management of acute uncomplicated diverticulitis: time to change traditional practice.International journal of colorectal disease · 2024Pooled it
- Is the outpatient management of acute diverticulitis safe and effective? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Techniques in coloproctology · 2019Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of outpatient treatment for acute diverticulitis.International journal of colorectal disease · 2018Pooled it
- Outcome variation in the use and duration of antibiotic therapy in patients presenting with acute diverticulitis.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Characteristics, treatment, and outcome of diverticulitis after immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment in patients with malignancies.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Article
- Diverticulitis: An Update From the Age Old Paradigm.Current problems in surgery · 2020Review
- Emergency Department Burden of Diverticulitis in the USA, 2006-2013.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2017Article
- Antibiotic treatment for uncomplicated and mild complicated diverticulitis: outpatient treatment for everyone.International journal of colorectal disease · 2017Article
- Selective non-antibiotic treatment in sigmoid diverticulitis: is it time to change the traditional approach?Techniques in coloproctology · 2016Article
- Surgery for diverticulitis: a re-evaluation of the changing trends.International surgeryArticle
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Abstract
Diverticular disease of the colon is a common disease, mainly in the population over 50 years of age. In acute forms of presentation, we considered home treatment in those patients that were classified as having uncomplicated forms by means of clinical presentation and a computed tomography of the abdomen. According to these criteria, we treated 38 patients at home and admitted 18 patients to the hospital during the same period of time. No severe complications developed in the home-treatment patients. Home treatment is an effective alternative treatment for patients with uncomplicated acute diverticulitis. In uncomplicated acute diverticulitis, home treatment benefits the patient, over hospitalization, by allowing better management of resources and by keeping the patient in a familiar environment where there is no risk of a nosocomial infection.
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