perforated diverticulitis

GI disease Diverticulitis complicated by rupture of a peridiverticular abscess into the peritoneal cavity resulting in purulent peritonitis. See Acute diverticulitis, Complicated diverticulitis, Hinchey staging system.

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Later, now a senior surgical registrar, I was reviewing cases of acute perforated diverticulitis of the colon admitted to the old Radcliffe Infirmary, (now, like all 15 of the hospitals that I have worked in, closed down or pulled down).

The early days of diverticula of the colon

Perforation is probably the most feared complication and the annual prevalence of perforated diverticulitis within a northern European population is currently thought to stand at 3.

Historically, perforated diverticulitis was treated with a three-stage procedure consisting of faecal diversion with a stoma, resection of the diseased segment of bowel, followed by takedown of the stoma and restoration of intestinal continuity.

In the largest series in the literature to date, Myers et al reported 100 patients with perforated diverticulitis and generalised peritonitis.

Latest diagnosis and management of diverticulitis

The patient was a man in his 40s who had undergone a Hartmann's procedure for perforated diverticulitis and subsequent colostomy closure.

It has been shown that perforated diverticulitis with Hinchey grade 3 has at least a 90 percent success rate when treated with laparoscopic peritoneal lavage and drainage alone.

Surgical brainstorm: what was one of your most challenging hernia cases? How did you handle it? What advice do you offer to surgeons facing a similar case?

The clinical impression was that he had perforated diverticulitis with intra-abdominal abscess, and he was immediately operated on.

Tuberculous abdominal abscess in an HIV-infected man: neither infection previously diagnosed