Comorbidity is a major determinant of severity in acute diverticulitis

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 681-685

  Lorimer, John W ^a   Doumit, Gaby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute colonic diverticulitis; Charlson index; Comorbidity; Disease severity

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLID TUMOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34248357684     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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