WSES Guidelines for the management of acute left sided colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting

Massimo Sartelli1, Fausto Catena2, Luca Ansaloni3, Federico Coccolini4, Ewen A. Griffiths5, Fikri M. Abu‐Zidan6, Salomone Di Saverio7, Jan Ulrych8, Yoram Kluger9, Ofir Ben-Ishay9, Frederick A. Moore10, Rao R. Ivatury11, Raúl Coimbra12, Andrew B. Peitzman13, Ari Leppäniemi14, Gustavo Pereira Fraga15, Ronald V. Maier16, Osvaldo Chiara17, Jeffry L. Kashuk18, Boris Sakakushev19, Dieter Weber20, Rifat Latifi21, Walter Biffl22, Miklosh Bala23, Aleksandar Karamarković24, Kenji Inaba25, Carlos A. Ordóñez26, Andreas Hecker27, Goran Augustin28, Zaza Demetrashvili29, Federico Coccolini30, Sanjay Marwah31, Sanoop Koshy Zachariah32, Vishal G. Shelat33, Michael McFarlane34, Miran Rems35, Carlos Augusto Gomes36, Mário Paulo Faro37, Gerson Alves Pereira Júnior38, Ionuț Negoi39, Yunfeng Cui40, Norio Sato41, András Vereczkei42, Giovanni Bellanova43, Arianna Birindelli7, Isidoro Di Carlo44, Kenneth Yuh Yen Kok45, Mahir Gachabayov46, Georgios Gkiokas47, Konstantinos Bouliaris48, Elif Çolak49, Arda Işık50, Daniel Ríos‐Cruz51, Rodolfo Soto52, Ernest E. Moore22
1Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Via Santa Lucia 2, 62019, Macerata, Italy
2Department of Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy
3General Surgery Department, Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, Bergamo, Italy
4Department of Surgery, “Infermi” Hospital, Rimini, Italy
5General and Upper GI Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK
6Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
7Department of Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy
81st Department of Surgery - Department of Abdominal, Thoracic Surgery and Traumatology, General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
9Department of General Surgery, Division of Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
10Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, and Center for Sepsis and Critical Illness Research, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA
11Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
12Department of Surgery, UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, USA
13Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
14Abdominal Center, University Hospital Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland
15Division of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, SP, Brazil
16Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
17Emergency Department, Niguarda Ca’ Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy
18Assia Medical Group, Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
19First Clinic of General Surgery, University Hospital/UMBAL/St George Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
20Department of Traumatology, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
21Department of Surgery, Trauma Research Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
22Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
23Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
24Clinic for Emergency Surgery, Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
25Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
26Department of Surgery, Fundación Valle del Lili, Hospital Universitario del Valle, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
27Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Giessen, Germany
28Department of Surgery, University Hospital Center Zagreb and School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
29Department of Surgery, Tbilisi State Medical University, Kipshidze Central University Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia
30Department of General Surgery, Centro Hospitalar São João, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
31Department of Surgery, Pt BDS Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India
32Department of Surgery, MOSC Medical College Kolenchery, Cochin, India
33Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, Singapore
34Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
35Surgical Department, General hospital Jesenice, Jesenice, Slovenia
36Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) AND Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora (SUPREMA), Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil
37Department of General Surgery, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Division, ABC Medical School, Santo André, SP, Brazil
38Emergency Surgery and Trauma Unit, Department of Surgery, University of Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
39Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
40Department of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
41Department of Primary Care & Emergency Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
42Department of Surgery, Medical School University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
43Department of Surgery, S.S. Annunziata Hospital, Taranto, Italy
44Department of Surgical Sciences, Organs Transplantation and Advanced Technologies, “G.F. Ingrassia” University of Catania, Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy
45Department of Surgery, The Brunei Cancer Centre, Jerudong Park, Brunei
46Department of Surgery, Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medicine, Vladimir City, Russian Federation
472nd Department of Surgery, Aretaieion University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
48Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece
49Department of Surgery, Samsun Education and Research Hospital, Samsun, Turkey
50Department of Surgery, Mengucek Gazi Training Research Hospital, Erzincan, Turkey
51Department of Surgery, Hospital de Alta Especialidad de Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
52Department of Emergency Surgery and Critical Care, Centro Medico Imbanaco, Cali, Colombia

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