Background Diverticulitis is a common condition with a broad spectrum of disease severity.
A scoring system has been proposed for diagnosing diverticulitis, and a number of scoring …

Background This manuscript is a review of different surgical techniques to manage
perforated colon diverticulitis. Objective This study was conducted to compare the benefits …

Objective With the use of abdominal vacuum therapy, we have developed a damage control
concept for patients with perforated diverticulitis and generalized peritonitis. The primary aim …

Colovesical fistula (CVF) is an abnormal communication between bowel and urinary
bladder. Main causes are represented by complicated diverticular disease, colonic and …

Abstract Background The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) recently
developed a grading scale for measuring anatomic severity of emergency general surgery …

Diverticular disease (DD) is an umbrella definition that includes different clinical conditions
ranging from diverticulosis to severe and potentially life-threatening complications. In the last …

Enterovesical fistula is a rare disease. The standard treatment of colovesical fistula is
removal of the fistula, suture of the bladder wall, and colic resection with or without …

Background Diverticular disease of sigmoid colon can rarely be complicated by a connective
track to urinary bladder. Pneumaturia and fecaluria are the pathognomonic symptoms …

Introduction: Acute diverticulitis (AD) is increasingly seen in Emergency services. The
application of a reliable classification is vital for its safe and effective management …

Introduction The current surgical management of acute complicated diverticulitis has seen a
major paradigm shift from routine operative intervention to a more conservative approach …