ReviewWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES2022
The WSES/SICG/ACOI/SICUT/AcEMC/SIFIPAC guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute left colonic diverticulitis in the elderly.
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- Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound for diverticulitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Accuracy of Prediction Models in Diagnosis of Acute Diverticulitis.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Pooled it
- Impact of elective minimally invasive sigmoidectomy for diverticular disease on quality of life: a single-center study.Updates in surgery · 2026Article
- Early Computed Tomography Imaging and Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Diverticulitis: A Propensity-Matched Multicenter Cohort Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Clinical outcomes after surgery for benign stomach versus colorectal perforations.BMC surgery · 2025Article
- Surveillance and follow-up in acute diverticulitis with pericolic free gas (ADiFas II): an age-specific analysis.Updates in surgery · 2025Article
- The Emerging Role of the Microbiota and Antibiotics in Diverticulitis Treatment.Clinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2025Review
- Management of Colonic Diverticular Disease in the Older Adult.Current gastroenterology reports · 2025Review
- Frailty is a prognostic marker of mortality and sepsis in patients ≥ 70 years with acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis.International journal of colorectal disease · 2025Article
- CT of acute abdomen in the elderly.Insights into imaging · 2025Article
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- Diverticulitis in Older Adults: A Review of Etiology, Diagnosis, and Management.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Review
- Development and validation of a preoperative prediction model for geriatric emergency general surgery.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Article
- A novel scoring system for predicting disease severity without CT imaging in acute diverticulitis.International journal of colorectal disease · 2024Article
- Acute diverticulitis with extraluminal air: is conservative treatment sufficient? A single-center retrospective study.Techniques in coloproctology · 2024Article
- Diverticulitis, surgery, evidence-based medicine, and the Steve Jobs' dots: a narrative review.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2024Review
- Guidelines for the Treatment of Abdominal Abscesses in Acute Diverticulitis: An Umbrella Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Hemogram-Derived Ratios in the Prognosis of Acute Diverticulitis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Emergency surgical treatment of colonic acute diverticulitis: a multicenter observational study on behalf of the Italian society of colorectal surgery (SICCR) Lombardy committee.Updates in surgery · 2023Observational
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Abstract
Acute left colonic diverticulitis (ALCD) in the elderly presents with unique epidemiological features when compared with younger patients. The clinical presentation is more nuanced in the elderly population, having higher in-hospital and postoperative mortality. Furthermore, geriatric comorbidities are a risk factor for complicated diverticulitis. Finally, elderly patients have a lower risk of recurrent episodes and, in case of recurrence, a lower probability of requiring urgent surgery than younger patients. The aim of the present work is to study age-related factors that may support a unique approach to the diagnosis and treatment of this problem in the elderly when compared with the WSES guidelines for the management of acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis. During the 1° Pisa Workshop of Acute Care & Trauma Surgery held in Pisa (Italy) in September 2019, with the collaboration of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), the Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery (SICG), the Italian Hospital Surgeons Association (ACOI), the Italian Emergency Surgery and Trauma Association (SICUT), the Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care (AcEMC) and the Italian Society of Surgical Pathophysiology (SIFIPAC), three panel members presented a number of statements developed for each of the four themes regarding the diagnosis and management of ALCD in older patients, formulated according to the GRADE approach, at a Consensus Conference where a panel of experts participated. The statements were subsequently debated, revised, and finally approved by the Consensus Conference attendees. The current paper is a summary report of the definitive guidelines statements on each of the following topics: diagnosis, management, surgical technique and antibiotic therapy.
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