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DR. MANEL BARDAJIDR. MANEL BARDAJI
Bardají Bofill ManelCirugía General Adultos
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Colon diverticula

Colonic diverticulosis is one of the most common diseases of Western civilization and is due to the low-fiber diet. In the United States approximately 1/3 of the population develops diverticulosis at age 50 and 2/3 at age 80. Diverticulitis is described as a complication of infectious disease of the colon affecting in most cases exclusively the sigmoid and descending colon. While most cases of acute diverticulitis can be successfully managed with medical treatment, recurrent attacks and complications of diverticulitis are surgical treatment. The most important complications of diverticulitis are diffuse peritonitis, localized abscesses, fistulas (colovesical or colovaginal) and obstruction.

  • Most patients with acute diverticulitis require hospitalization for administration of parenteral hydration, broad-spectrum antibiotics, nasogastric tube placement to decompress the intestine.

  • Risks

    In the surgical treatment of diverticulitis, mortality for elective resection and primary anastomosis is 0% to 2% compared to 5% to 20% for emergency surgeries. The increased morbidity and mortality of emergency surgery is related to inadequate control of the septic process, resection of the perforated colonic segment has clear advantages over previous procedures of proximal colostomia and perforation drainage.

    Technical complications related to colonic surgery include bleeding, leakage of the anastomosis with associated infection, and occasionally inadvertent injury to adjacent organs, particularly the ureter. These risks are lower in patients who undergo elective collectomia, with complications being less than 5%.

    Although the risks of hemorrhage and injury to neighboring organs are greater in emergency surgery, not performing primary anastomoses reduces the problem of anastomosis leaks. As diverticulitis affects older people, the risks of surgery are associated with other general pathologies of patients such as heart or lung diseases.

  • Prognosis

    In patients who have a first picture of diverticulitis with a successful treatment only between 10 and 20% repeat the picture, but the need for surgical intervention in these patients is very high. When surgery is performed electively, the hospitalization time is 5 to 7 days. Because the colonic resections that are performed are not very extensive, the recovery of colonic functioning is normal. After successful colonic resection with anastomosis the rate of recurrence of diverticulitis is below 5% but if the extension does not include the rectosigmoid junction it is greater.

    Approximately 15 to 20% of patients with diverticulitis require surgery for abscesses, peritonitis, or fistula. These patients have a high degree of perioperative morbidity and high mortality rates, and usually require a second operation to close the colostomy. Either way after reconstruction.

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