EVALUACIÓN DE LA CONDUCTA TERAPÉUTICA DE LA DIVERTICULITIS AGUDA, EN LA UNIDAD DE COLOPROCTOLOGÍA DEL HOSPITAL TEODORO MALDONADO CARBO, EN EL PERÍODO 2010 AL 2014

Abstract

Diverticulitis, which may be acute or chronic, in the first case, corresponds to the appearance of the clinical picture for the first time and in chronic cases, when the patient presents acute attacks with relapse from time to time. The most frequent outcome of diverticulitis is the intraluminal abscess of the diverticulum, with an increase of 5.9% in 2000 to 9.6% in 2014. The other complications of diverticular disease that begin as diverticulitis, such as perforation , Hemorrhage, stenosis and fistulae, did not present significant changes in their insidence, in the same period. After data collection and reviewing the international literature, results were obtained not far from those recorded in other countries, such as; incidence in the sixth decade of life with 45,26%. The distribution of patients according to sex, with the highest rate of acute diveticulitis in males with 62,77%. Finally, with tha data analysis, satisfactory results were obtained boh in s n controlled by the outpatient clinic.