Active clinical trials for "Diverticulitis"

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of Exparel on pain control and patient outcome after colon resection. The investigators will evaluate the clinical course of the patients who receive exparel as compared to the patients who do not receive exparel. Exparel is a 72 hour bupivacaine which is slowly released from lysosomes over the course of three days. A long acting local anesthetic should provide better pain control than conventional bupivacaine which has a 3.5 hour half-life.

Bowel removal is indicated for various types of colon and rectal disease, including colon cancer, rectal cancer, diverticulitis, and inflammatory bowel disease among others. Following removal of the diseased segment of bowel your surgeon will reconnect the two healthy ends to reconstruct a continuous bowel tube. If the bowel leaks it can become an extremely dangerous situation. The cause of leakage has many causes and is not well understood, but appears to be at least in part due to not having enough blood going to the bowel. There is currently no way to evaluate the blood supply to the bowel. The purpose of this study is to utilize a special camera to evaluate the blood supply of the bowel. This new system is called the Spy-scope. This system may assist surgeons in reducing the occurrence of leaks

the purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Niti CAR-device in the creation of colorectal anastomosis

Rationale The prevalence of colonic diverticular disease is increasing in Western countries. Approximately 10 to 25% of patients with diverticular disease will eventually develop an episode of acute diverticulitis. Currently conservative treatment often includes antibiotic therapy. This advice lacks sound evidence and is merely based on experts' opinion. An old clinical dogma is being clarified with this randomized trial. Objective Primary objective is to evaluate whether or not using antibiotics reduces to time to full recovery of an attack of uncomplicated (mild) diverticulitis. Secondary objectives are to evaluate complications, quality of life, readmission rate, recurrence rate, medical and non-medical costs, and antibiotic resistance/sensitivity in both groups. Hypothesis The investigators hypothesis is that in the treatment of uncomplicated (mild) acute diverticulitis, supportive treatment without antibiotics is a more cost-effective approach than conservative treatment with antibiotics with respect to time-to-recovery as primary outcome. Study design A randomized, open label, multicenter clinical trial comparing treatment of acute uncomplicated diverticulitis with antibiotics to observation and supportive care alone. Study population Patients 18 years or older are eligible for inclusion if they have a diagnosis of acute uncomplicated diverticulitis as demonstrated by imaging. Only patients with stages 1a and 1b according to Hinchey's classification or "mild" diverticulitis according to the Ambrosetti criteria are included. Intervention Conservative strategy with antibiotics: supportive measures and at least 48 hours of intravenous antibiotics (and therefore admittance to the hospital) and subsequently switch to oral antibiotics if tolerated (total duration of 10 days). Control Liberal strategy without antibiotics: supportive measures only. Observation and oral intake as tolerated. Admittance only if discharge criteria are not met on presentation. Main study parameters/endpoints The primary endpoint is time-to-recovery with a 6-month follow-up period. Secondary endpoints are occurrence of complicated diverticulitis requiring surgery or percutaneous treatment, morbidity, health related quality of life, readmission rate, recurrence rate, medical and non-medical costs, and antibiotic resistance/sensitivity.

The first objective (LOLA) of this integrated trial is to determine whether laparoscopic lavage leads to better clinical outcomes compared to sigmoidectomy in patients with perforated diverticulitis with purulent peritonitis in terms of mortality and major morbidity. The second objective (DIVA) is to determine whether sigmoidectomy with anastomosis or sigmoidectomy with end-colostomy is the superior approach in patients with perforated diverticulitis with either purulent or faecal peritonitis in terms of stoma free survival. The study is designed as a multicenter and randomised trial.

The aim of the study is to compare patient outcome following standard of care (Hartmann's or resection with anastomosis and defunctioning stoma) and a 'new therapy' (laparoscopic lavage alone) for the treatment of acute perforated non-faeculant diverticulitis in Irish hospitals. Perforated diverticulitis requires emergency surgery. This carries significant risks and mortality as high as 15% during the index admission has been reported. Our group has established the safety of laparoscopic lavage alone on the largest cohort to date in a prospective multi-institutional study of 100 patients, providing convincing evidence that laparoscopic lavage alone is a reasonable alternative to resection for non-faeculant perforated diverticulitis. Our aim now is to translate this well-established study design into a protocol for a multi-institutional randomised control trial as direct comparison is the only way to provide convincing evidence of one modality over another. All patients will be followed up for twelve months and primary (operative and in-hospital mortality) and secondary (in-hospital and post-discharge morbidity; rates of stoma formation; rates of re-presentation with diverticulitis with or without perforation.) end-points will be recorded. Sample size calculations reveal that a patient cohort of 100 in each arm will be sufficient to detect a difference in morbidity and mortality between groups The ratio between Hinchey 3 and Hinchey 4 is estimated to be approximately 2:1. In order to guarantee sufficient sample size, therefore, 300 patients must fulfil the study criteria allowing for exclusion of 100 at time of operation

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and the tolerability of the Lactobacillus reuteri in the control of the diverticular disease symptoms and in the prevention of acute diverticulitis episodes.

This study focuses on if low dose CT without intravenous contrast has a high enough specificity and sensitivity for acute diverticulitis that it can be used as the primary diagnostic method instead of a full dose CT with intravenous contrast which is the standard method in Sweden.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether antibiotics is mandatory for the treatment of acute uncomplicated right-sided diverticulitis. The hypothesis is that patients having acute uncomplicated diverticulitis at right-sided colon will be recovered without antibiotics.

Sigmoid diverticular diseases is a pathologie frequent in patients above 60 years old. A person with diverticulosis may have few or no symptoms. When a diverticulum ruptures and infection sets in around the diverticulum the condition is called diverticulitis. An individual suffering from diverticulitis may have abdominal pain, abdominal tenderness, and fever. Bleeding originates from a diverticulum, it is called diverticular bleeding. Frequent hospitalisations as a result of the evolution of purulent peritonitis that originates from diverticulitis treated by mini-invasive surgery results. Radiological percutaneous drainage and washing of the abdominal cavity during laparoscopic generalized purulent peritonitis of diverticular origin have been identified as therapeutic options by HAS (French health authorities), followed by second stage resection-anastomosis under elective surgery. It has been observed in patients that if only drainage and washing are performed (without resection), then the morbidity (10%) and mortality (1.5%) rates are much lower than usual rates (after resection) respectively 20-40% and 10-30%. Furthermore this reduces the risks of postoperatory complications. Some studies have shown that the attitude of non-distance resection of the acute episode was associated with a recurrence rate of diverticulitis less than 5% recurrence without gravity. In addition, the morbidity associated with intervention sigmoid resection is around 30%. The question arises in our daily practice, or not to propose systematic resection of sigmoid diverticulitis after an acute episode of severe purulent peritonitis or abscess types supported initially by minimally invasive. The primary objective of the study is to determine, after clinical improvement linked to conservative treatment of perforated diverticulitis Hinchey peritonitis stage II and III, if a conservative approach reduces morbidity compared with a cold sigmoid resection attitude as currently recommended. The secondary objective of the study is to determine if conservative treatment reduces mortality, length of hospital stay compared with cumulative sigmoid diverticular disease and improves quality of life.