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Partial
Colectomy P-value
Partial
Colectomy Overall TAC LI
– 32% 40% 17% – 0.002
21
(21%)
(79%)
– 26% 23% 30% – 1.0
10
– – 31% 36% – 0.45
(43%)
47
(57%)
(10%)
(90%)
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– 30.1% 31% 26% – 0.28
613
(20%)
– 151 (21%) 35% – 37% 0.58
(80%)
(79%)
Patients (N) Mortality (%)
Total TAC LI
Low 98 77
Years
Studied Quality
2014
Retrospective Multicenter 2011–
etal.
Year Study Design Study Type
Table 32.2 Summary of studies
2017 Ferrada
27 13
Very
low
2011–
2015
center
Retrospective Single
etal
2017 Fashandi
Low 457 410
2011–
2016
(ACS-
NSQIP)
2018 Hall etal. Retrospective Database
Low 3021 2408
Low 733 582
2011–
2015
2007–
(NIS)
Retrospective Database
2019 Juo etal. Retrospective Database
2019 Peprah
2015
(ACS-
etal.
NSQIP)
LI loop ileostomy, TAC Total abdominal colectomy, CDI Clostrioides difcile infection

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(12.9–26.5%). There was no signicant difference in in-hospital mortality between
LI and TAC (26% vs. 31%, p=0.28). However, those who underwent LI were signicantly younger (60.4 vs. 68.2, p<0.01), had fewer comorbidities (Elixhauser
index, >5; 9.6% vs 13.3%, p=0.03), and occurred more often in hospitals with large
bed sizes (76.3% vs 65.4%, p < 0.01) and urban teaching hospitals (84.0% vs.
66.3%, p< 0.01) [14]. Interestingly, Juo etal. also found that signicantly more
patients underwent LI compared to TAC on hospital day 0 (23% vs 12%, p<0.01).
The authors suggest a bias towards less severe cases of CDI on patients who underwent LI, which may affect mortality in subsequent studies and should be considered.
Finally, Peprah etal. queried the ACS NSQIP (2007–2015) database for patients
with a diagnosis of C. difcile colitis who underwent a TAC or partial colectomy
[15]. This was the only study comparing these two surgical approaches. The authors
found no signicant difference in mortality between TAC or partial colectomy
(34.7% vs. 37.1%, p=0.58). After controlling for patient factors, there was no difference for partial colectomy in complication rate (OR 0.92, 95% CI 0.51–1.62)
compared with TAC.
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Recommendations Based ontheData
As stated above, the overall grade of evidence on this subject is low due to the retrospective nature of this data and heterogeneous populations of patients studied.
Additionally, only a small number of articles were identied comparing surgical
procedures in the management of severe CDI.Overall, the mortality rates following
surgical intervention for severe CDI remain high. The surgical management chosen
is often patient specic and heavily reliant on individual surgeon’s bias or judgement. None of the new data presented here should change the recommendations
suggested in the ASCRS Clinical Practice Guidelines. (1) “Surgery for C. difcile
colitis should be typically reserved for patients with colonic perforation or severe
colitis who do not improve with medical therapy.” (2) “Subtotal colectomy with end
ileostomy is typically the operative procedure recommended for severe complicated
fulminant C. difcile colitis.” [3]
Personal View oftheData
The art of being a surgeon lies in selecting the correct operation for a patient and
intervening at the correct time. Surgery for C. difcile is no different. As a patient
progresses to severe colitis, a surgical team should be consulted to help make these
difcult decisions. Though vancomycin and daxomicin have shown promising
results, a small proportion of patients will fail medical management. Surgery should
be reserved for the most severe, fulminant cases that are progressing towards organ
dysfunction. The standard operation in this rare setting is still total abdominal colectomy with end ileostomy. This operation has historically been shown to be superior to any type of segmental colectomy. The concept of a diverting loop ileostomy

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is intriguing and though the original study by Neal did include critically ill patients
in the loop ileostomy group, the remaining literature on this topic is subject to selection bias [9]. Many patients with less severe illness were offered diverting ileostomy, leaving the reader to wonder whether they would have recovered with no
surgical intervention at all. This is similar to laparoscopic lavage for diverticulitis,
where many patients who likely did not need any surgical intervention at all were
treated with laparoscopic lavage. Their positive outcomes likely skewed the literature in favor of lavage. The recent EAST study on LI vs. Colectomy was criticized
because LI offered no advantage in postoperative sepsis, renal failure, acute lung
injury, or overall mortality [10]. More information is needed, ideally in the form of
a well-powered randomized trial to make LI the standard practice.
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3. Poylin V, Hawkins AT, Bhama AR, Boutros M, Lightner AL, Khanna S, etal. The American
Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons clinical practice guidelines for the Management of
Clostridioides difcile infection. Dis Colon Rectum. 2021;64:650–68.
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Rectal surgery. Springer; 2022.
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after emergency colectomy for Clostridium difcile colitis: an analysis of ACS-NSQIP.Ann
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colonic lavage: an alternative to total abdominal colectomy for the treatment of severe, complicated Clostridium difcile associated disease. Ann Surg. 2011;254:423–7; discussion 427-9.
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Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter trial. J Trauma Acute Care Surg.
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2019;217:34–9.
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14. Juo YY, Sanaiha Y, Jabaji Z, Benharash P. Trends in diverting loop ileostomy vs total
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fortheManagement ofUncomplicated
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Diverticulitis?
NathanKohrman andGlennT.Ault
Introduction
As colorectal surgeons we are familiar with diverticulitis, its complications, its epidemiology, and its burden on our health system. We are also familiar with the new
hypothesis about its etiology: inammation and changes in the colonic microbiome
cause micro-perforations, which in turn cause infection [1–7]. Two major randomized control trials, DIABOLO [8] and AVOD [9], offer compelling evidence for this
new hypothesis. Both trials showed that patients with acute uncomplicated diverticulitis (AUD) who receive conservative management have clinical outcomes similar to patients who receive antibiotics, long the standard of care.
The DIABOLO Trial was conducted at 22 clinical sites across the Netherlands
and included patients over 18years old who met the Hinchey classication of 1a or
1b or the Ambrosetti classication of ‘mild.’ All diagnoses were conrmed with a
CT within 24h of admission. The AVOD trial was conducted across 10 surgical
departments in Sweden and one in Iceland. It included patients over 18years old
based on clinical criteria such as lower abdominal pain with tenderness, temperature
>38°C, elevated WC, and signs of diverticulitis on CT. The trials used different
inclusion criteria because there are several ways to diagnose AUD, which is a source
of heterogeneity in the way colorectal surgeons approach the disease. Patients in
both trials were randomly assigned treatment with antibiotics or conservative
N. Kohrman
Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
G. T. Ault (*)
Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
e-mail: ault@med.usc.edu
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature
Switzerland AG 2023
K. Umanskiy, N. Hyman (eds.), Difcult Decisions in Colorectal Surgery,
Difcult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach,
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management, and then followed upon discharge to track complications, readmission, or other adverse events.
The trials found no statistically signicant difference in clinical outcomes, and
subsequent meta-analyses and retrospective studies supported the ndings reported
by the AVOD and DIABOLO trials. Two noteworthy studies, by Bolkenstein etal.
[10] and Emile et Al [11], evaluated potential causes of conservative management
failure, and found associations with two factors: elevated inammatory markers
and comorbidities. As such, there are still instances where antibiotics are
appropriate.
Many colorectal surgeons still prescribe oral and IV antibiotics for all cases of
AUD, in line with decades of personal experience, as well as the ASCRS clinical
practice guidelines published 2014 [12]. However, current ASCRS clinical practice
guidelines published in 2020 state that in majority of cases of AUD, antibiotics are
not indicated [13]. As for those of us who treat less healthy patients, choosing
between conservative management or prescribing antibiotics is not so
straightforward.
Search Strategy
A comprehensive literature search of Cochrane Database of Collected Research
[14], EMBASE, MEDLINE, and PubMed was performed to identify all the Englishlanguage publications related to acute uncomplicated diverticulitis, antibiotic use,
conservative management, and rates of treatment failure from 2010 to 2020. Key
search terms included “diverticulitis,” “diverticulosis,” “diverticular,” “colonic,”
“colon diverticulosis,” “surgery,” “medical therapy,” and “antibiotics,” in line with
the search performed in the 2020 ASCRS clinical practice guidelines on the topic
[13]. Studies were excluded if they did not refer specically to uncomplicated diverticulitis. Complicated diverticulitis was dened as diverticular disease resulting in
an uncontained perforation, stula, stricture, or abscess formation. Table33.1 summarizes the population, intervention, comparator and key outcomes (PICO) for the
patient population.
Table 33.1 PICO table
Patients
Patients with acute
uncomplicated
diverticulitis
Intervention Comparator
Conservative
management with
NSAIDs
Antibiotics (oral
or IV) with
NSAIDs
Outcome
Resolution of symptoms,
treatment failure, subsequent
surgery, cost, subsequent
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Results
In the past decade, DIABOLO and AVOD, two randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
conducted across several institutions in Northern Europe, showed there was no difference in outcomes between patients with AUD who received NSAIDs and antibiotics (oral and IV) and those treated conservatively with just NSAIDs [8, 9]. The
measured outcomes included recurrence of diverticulitis, development of complicated diverticulitis, subsequent surgery, readmission, or other complications [15–
19]. There was no statistically signicant difference in these ndings in the long or
short term. Of note, van Dijk etal. [20] found that patients who received observational treatment had a higher rate of sigmoid colon resection at 2years (9.0% compared to 5.0%), but those ndings were not statistically signicant (p=0.085). As
the authors noted, this may be because the study sample was under powered.
However, van Dijk’s meta-analyses of patient records two years after the initial
episode of AUD found no difference in the rates of diverticulitis recurrence, complications, or surgical intervention [20]. After more than 10year follow up of patients
in the AVOD trial, there was no difference in rates of recurrent diverticulitis or quality of life between patients who received antibiotics and those who did not [21].
Table33.2 summarizes these key studies.
Table 33.2 Results summary table
Patients (N)
observation v.
Study
Megge [16] 1394 v 927 Treatment failure
Daniels [8] 262 v. 266 Median time to recovery
Chabok [9] 309 v. 314 Complications
Desai [15] 1346 v. 895 Length of hospital stay
antibiotics Outcome measure
Emergency surgery
Recurrence
Complications
Recurrence
Sigmoid resection
Readmission
Adverse events
Mortality
Recurrence within 1year
Readmission
Length of hospital stay
Recurrence
Complications
Readmission
Treatment failure
Sigmoid resection
Mortality
Results
observation v.
antibiotics
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Quality of
evidence
Moderate
High
High
Moderate
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Table 33.2 (continued)
Patients (N)
observation v.
Study
Au [17] 1663 v. 842 Length of hospital stay
Van Dijk [18] 545 v. 564 Ongoing diverticulitis at
Mocanu [19] 1626 v. 843 Recurrence within 1month
Isacson [21] 275 v. 281 Recurrence rate at 10years
Van Dijk [20] 262 v. 266 Recurrence at 2years
antibiotics Outcome measure
Additional treatment
Recurrence
Complications
1year
Recurrence
Sigmoid resection
Treatment failure
Complications
Elective or emergent
surgery
Complication rate at
10years
Surgery rate at 10years
Cancer rate at 10years
Quality of life at 10years
Complications at 2years
Sigmoid resection at
2years
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observation v.
antibiotics
−0.68; p=0.04
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Comparable
Quality of
evidence
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Moderate
Other meta-analyses, by Bolkenstein etal. and Emile etal. found associations
between conservative treatment failure and a CRP of >170 [10], and between conservative treatment failure and comorbidities, especially immunosuppressive comorbidities such as diabetes [11]. The study by Emile etal. did not address specic
comorbidities that may have put patients at elevated risk, or the risk posed by nonimmunosuppressive conditions such as heart failure. While Bolkenstein etal. [10]
did nd a statistically signicant relationship between elevated CRP and conservative treatment failure, Emile etal. [11] failed to nd one. Both meta-analyses are
sufciently powered to support their contradictory conclusions. While it seems
intuitive that elevated CRP would correlate with an increased rate of conservative
treatment failure, other measures of inammation and infection such as white blood
cell count and temperature had no relationship with treatment failure in any of the
meta-analyses we reviewed.
Among the studies looking at the consequences of antibiotic use, Au etal. [17]
found an association between antibiotics and a prolonged hospital stay, while
Megge etal. [16] found that for AUD patients treated with antibiotics, a short
course of oral antibiotics had similar outcomes compared to a longer course of
IV antibiotics. These ndings were consistent with a randomized prospective
trial performed by Schug-Pass etal. [22] which found that a 4-day dose of ertapenem was as effective as a 7-day course. The DIVER trial performed by Biondo

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etal., [23] found that AUD can be safely treated in an outpatient setting at a third
of the cost of treating AUD in the hospital setting. Estrada Ferrer etal. [24] found
that 88% of patients with AUD who received conservative treatment in an outpatient setting successfully completed their treatment. They also found that many
patients who did require antibiotics for acute diverticulitis could be managed
outpatient as well.
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Recommendations
• Patients with AUD who have no comorbidities can be safely treated with obser-
vation and NSAIDs. (Evidence: strong; Recommendation: strong)
• Patients with AUD who are immunosuppressed or have comorbidities affecting
their immune function can receive oral antibiotics and can be safely treated out-
patient. (Evidence: moderate; Recommendation: moderate)
• Patients with AUD and other poorly controlled comorbidities should be seriously
considered for inpatient antibiotics.
• (Evidence: moderate; Recommendation; moderate)
Personal View
Most colorectal surgeons have been taught to prescribe antibiotics for AUD.Despite
available evidence, surgeons may be reluctant to change the treatment approaches
they have relied on over the course of their career. However, the evidence is overwhelming that immunocompetent patients can be treated effectively with conservative management. While the outcomes are similar, the benets of observational
management are substantial. Many patients are spared the discomfort and logistical
difculty of taking another drug and are spared the potential side effects of antibiotics. While not specifally addressed by this chapter, avoiding antibiotics will result in
decreasing healthcare costs. The patient will face less risk from antibiotic resistance
and C.Difcile infection. For physicians who treat AUD in healthy patient populations, this will streamline care. The patients can be followed on an outpatient basis
with phone calls, electronic messaging or video visits. The timeframe for follow up
can be left to individual provider’s clinical judgment.
The recommendations are not as clear-cut for management patients with AUD
who have comorbidities. Emile etal. [11], a metanalysis of 2565 patients, found that
comorbidities were the only variable signicantly associated with treatment failure
in the non-antibiotic group. While this group was small—85 patients out of 1671—
it makes sense that immunosuppressive conditions such as diabetes could impede
the healing process. Since Bolkenstein etal. and Emile etal. had different ndings
on the relationship between elevated CRP and treatment failure, we defer to individual provider’s judgment whether to use this value in managing of AUD.In our
opinion, because it is a non-specic marker, elevated CRP value alone should not
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Would we discharge a patient with AUD without antibiotics if they have prediabetes or take low-dose steroids? What if they have a serious but nonimmunosuppressive disease like congestive heart disease? Additional research is
necessary to answer these questions. In the meantime, we will have to use our individualized clinical judgment.
The AVOD and DIABOLO studies were conducted in European countries with
patient populations that are healthier than the patients we serve at LAC+USC
Medical Center, which is a large public safety net hospital. Our patients often have
low health literacy and comorbidities, both diagnosed and undiagnosed. Many are
low-income and Latino, which according to the CDC means between one in four
and one in ve of our patients have diabetes [25]. These rates likely grow as patients
get older—which is also when AUD is more likely to present. Many patients also
have cirrhosis and inammatory conditions for which they must take steroids. These
patients need antibiotics when they present with AUD.Treating our patient population on an outpation basis would be challenging. Even with coaching, patients with
low health literacy often struggle to ll prescriptions and take their medications as
prescribed.
So where does this leave us? We would feel comfortable using conservative management to treat a patient with AUD and DM with an A1c below 7.0, the threshold
above which patients develop an increased risk of infection [26]. As for patients
with AUD and non-immunosuppressive comorbidities, we would use conservative
management if the comorbid condition is well controlled, such as asymptomatic
heart failure. For patients with AUD and uncontrolled comorbidities, we would,
despite the ndings of Schug-Pas etal. [22] and Estrada Ferrer etal. [24] admit the
patient for a 4-day course of antibiotics to reduce the risk of treatment failure or
non-adherence. Each surgeon will likely have a different approach based on his or
her patient population. Treating acute uncomplicated diverticulitis is, well,
complicated.
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