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American Gastroenterological Association Institute Guideline on the Management of Acute Diverticulitis

2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 149; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1053/j.gastro.2015.10.003

ISSN

1528-0012

Autores

Neil Stollman, Walter Smalley, Ikuo Hirano, Megan A. Adams, Spencer D. Dorn, Sharon Dudley‐Brown, Steven L. Flamm, Ziad F. Gellad, Claudia Gruss, Lawrence R. Kosinski, Joseph K. Lim, Yvonne Romero, Joel H. Rubenstein, Walter Smalley, Shahnaz Sultan, David S. Weinberg, Yu‐Xiao Yang,

Tópico(s)

Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management

Resumo

This document presents the official recommendations of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute on the management of acute diverticulitis. Acute diverticulitis, defined as clinically evident macroscopic inflammation of a diverticulum or diverticula, occurs in approximately 4% of patients with diverticulosis; roughly 15% of those patients will have complicated disease, defined as an abscess, perforation, fistula, or colonic obstruction, and 15% to 30% will experience recurrence.

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