Surgical treatment of acute complicated diverticulitis in the elderly.

CONCLUSIONS: In a septic elderly patient who is hemodynamically unstable, treatment should be as prompt as possible independent of the Hinchey's stage, and could include either a Mickulicz stoma or a DCS strategy. In an elderly patient who is fit and hemodynamically stable, the surgical options are similar to those in a younger patient. If a patient is frail but hemodynamically stable, he should be treated with a Hartmann's procedures. PMID: 30306769 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Chirurgica - Category: Surgery Tags: Minerva Chir Source Type: research