Rarely diagnosed before the twentieth century, complicated diverticulosis is the most common surgically treated colon disease after colorectal cancer in Western countries.
A retrospective analysis of 213 patients with colonic diverticulosis was performed. Of them, 94 were male and 109 were female. Their mean age was 60.9 (32–91); 10% were under 50; 33% were aged 50–60; 42% were aged 60–80; and 15% were over 80.
We analyzed demographics, severity of disease, surgical outcomes: time to intervention, recovery passage, feeding, length of hospitalization, complications, reinterventions, and lethality.
Diverticulitis is classified as complicated or uncomplicated based on: CT data, medical history, the severity of clinical symptoms, and diagnostic imaging data.
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