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Acute Diverticulitis in Heart Transplant Recipients
Detry, Olivier; Defraigne, Jean-Olivier; Meurisse, Michel et al.
1996In Transplant International, 9 (4), p. 376-9
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Abstract :
[en] Immunosuppressed patients are susceptible to complicated diverticulitis, but reports of this complication are scarce in heart graft recipients. To estimate the prevalence of acute diverticulitis in heart graft recipients, we retrospectively reviewed the cases of diverticulitis in a series of 143 patients who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation in a period of 10 years. Six (4%) of these developed acute diverticulitis and required colectomy. All of them were male patients and were older than 50 years. Four patients underwent urgent laparotomy and colon resection with end colostomy (Hartmann procedure). The two other patients suffered from diverticulitis without generalized peritonitis and underwent laparoscopic sigmoidectomy with direct transanal end-to-end anastomosis. The postoperative outcomes of these six patients were satisfactory. As are other immunosuppressed patients, heart graft recipients are susceptible to diverticulitis. Early surgical management may be safe in well-compensated patients.
Disciplines :
Surgery
Gastroenterology & hepatology
Cardiovascular & respiratory systems
Author, co-author :
Detry, Olivier  ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie abdominale- endocrinienne et de transplantation
Defraigne, Jean-Olivier ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biochimie générale
Meurisse, Michel ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Chirurgicale abdominale
Bertrand, O.
Demoulin, J. C.
Honore, Pierre ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie abdominale- endocrinienne et de transplantation
Jacquet, Nicolas
Limet, Raymond ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Chirurgie cardio-vasculaire et thoracique
Language :
English
Title :
Acute Diverticulitis in Heart Transplant Recipients
Publication date :
September 1996
Journal title :
Transplant International
ISSN :
0934-0874
eISSN :
1432-2277
Publisher :
Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
9
Issue :
4
Pages :
376-9
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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