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Uptodate Reference Title
Management of acute colonic diverticulitis
Management of acute colonic diverticulitis
CT: computed tomography.
* Criteria for inpatient management (only need to meet one):
Complicated diverticulitis (refer to the ¶ footnote below)
Sepsis or systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) evidenced by more than one of the following: Temperature >38° or <36° Celsius, heart rate >90 beats per minute (bpm), respiration rate >20 respirations per minute (rpm), white blood cell count >12,000/mL or <4000/mL, C-reactive protein >15 mg/dL
Severe abdominal pain or diffuse peritonitis, and/or failure to reduce abdominal pain in the emergency department to <5 on a visual analog scale (VAS)
Microperforation (eg, a few air bubbles outside of the colon without contrast extravasation or phlegmon)
Age >70 years
Significant comorbidities (eg, diabetes mellitus with organic involvement [eg, retinopathy, angiopathy, nephropathy], a recent cardiogenic event [eg, acute myocardial infarction, angina, heart failure], or recent decompensation of chronic liver disease [≥Child B] or end-stage renal disease)
Immunosuppression (eg, poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, chronic high-dose corticosteroid use, use of other immunosuppressive agents, advanced human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS], B or T cell leukocyte deficiency, active cancer of hematologic malignancy, or organ transplant)
Intolerance of oral intake secondary to bowel obstruction or ileus
Noncompliance with care/unreliability for return visits/lack of support system
Failure of outpatient treatment
¶ Complications of acute diverticulitis:
Frank perforation
Abscess (asymptomatic patients with a healed diverticular abscess may not need surgery due to a lower risk of complicated recurrence)