Case-matched comparison of perioperative outcomes after surgical treatment of sigmoid diverticulitis in solid organ transplant recipients versus immunocompetent patients

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1546-1552

  Reshef, A ^a   Stocchi, L ^a   Kiran, R P ^a   Flechner, S ^a   Budev, M ^a   Quintini, C ^a   Remzi, F H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunocompromised host; Sigmoid diverticulitis; Surgery; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART GRAFT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SIGMOID DIVERTICULITIS; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLON, SIGMOID; COLOSTOMY; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869231501     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2012.03077.x     Document Type: Article

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