ArticleInternational journal of colorectal disease2017
Low risk of complications in patients with first-time acute uncomplicated diverticulitis.
Article in International journal of colorectal disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07322926 (Is It So Hard To Predict Complicated Diverticulitis?), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Is It So Hard To Predict Complicated Diverticulitis?
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- SAGES white paper on antibiotic omission in the management of acute uncomplicated diverticulitis: why, when, who, and most importantly, how.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Guideline
- Minimally invasive versus open surgery for colonic diverticular disease: a nationwide analysis of German hospital data.Techniques in coloproctology · 2025Article
- Early elective versus elective sigmoid resection in diverticular disease: not only timing matters-a single institutional retrospective review of 133 patients.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2022Article
- Management of Acute Uncomplicated Diverticulitis: Inpatient or Outpatient.Sisli Etfal Hastanesi tip bulteni · 2022Article
- Changing Paradigms in the Management of Acute Uncomplicated Diverticulitis.Scandinavian journal of surgery : SJS : official organ for the Finnish Surgical Society and the Scandinavian Surgical Society · 2021Review
- The Indications for and Timing of Surgery for Diverticular Disease.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2020Review
- Progress and challenges in the management of diverticular disease: which treatment?Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2018Review
- Recent advances in understanding and managing diverticulitis.F1000Research · 2018Review
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Abstract
purposeFirst-time acute uncomplicated diverticulitis (AUD) has been considered to have an increased risk of complication, but the level of evidence is low. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the risk of complications in patients with first-time AUD and in patients with a history of diverticulitis.
methodsThis paper is a population-based retrospective study at Västmanland's Hospital, Västerås, Sweden, where all patients were identified with a diagnosis of colonic diverticular disease ICD-10 K57.0-9 from January 2010 to December 2014. The records of all patients were surveyed and patients with a computed tomography (CT)-verified AUD were included. Complications defined as CT-verified abscess, perforation, colonic obstruction, fistula, or sepsis within 1 month from the diagnosis of AUD were registered.
resultsOf 809 patients with AUD, 642 (79%) had first-time AUD and 167 (21%) had a previous history of AUD with no differences in demographic or clinical characteristics. In total, 16 (2%) patients developed a complication within 1 month irrespective of whether they had a previous history of diverticulitis (P = 0.345). In the binary logistic regression analysis, first-time diverticulitis was not associated with increased risk of complications (OR 1.58; CI 0.52-4.81). The rate of antibiotic therapy was about 7-10% during the time period and outpatient management increased from 7% in 2010 to 61% in 2014.
conclusionsThe risk for development of complications is low in AUD with no difference between patients with first-time or recurrent diverticulitis. This result strengthens existing evidence on the benign disease course of AUD.
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