Takeshi Seta, Hiroyoshi Iwagami, Nobukazu Agatsuma, Atsushi Noma, Maiko Ikenouchi, Kenji Kubo, Takuji Akamatsu, Yoshito Uenoyama, Daisuke Ito, Yukitaka Yamashita, Takeo Nakayama
The need for antimicrobial therapy for uncomplicated acute diverticulitis of the colon remains controversial. We conducted a systematic review of the efficacy of antimicrobial agents against this disease, including new randomized controlled trials (RCTs) reported in recent years, and evaluated their efficacy using a meta-analytic approach. RCTs were searched using PubMed, EMBASE, Google Scholar, Cochrane Library, Ichushi-Web, and eight registries. Keywords were 'colonic diverticulitis', 'diverticulitis', 'antimicrobial agents', ''antibiotics, 'complication', 'abscess', 'gastrointestinal perforation', 'gastrointestinal obstruction', 'diverticular hemorrhage', and 'fistula'...
July 31, 2023: European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology