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Published on: October 29, 2014
Small bowel diverticula in elderly patients: a case report and review article
Marah Mansour1, Yazan Abboud2, Racha Bilal3
1Faculty of Medicine, Tartous University, Tartous, Syrian Arab Republic. marahmohammad66@gmail.com.
Background:
Small intestine diverticula are rare findings that were mostly reported in the elderly population as asymptomatic findings. However, they can also present with a wide range of symptoms (bloating, early satiety, chronic abdominal discomfort, and diarrhea/steatorrhea) or complications (gastrointestinal bleeding, small bowel obstruction, acute diverticulitis, or perforation) which in turn warrant medical treatment or urgent surgical intervention.
Case Presentation:
This is a case report of an 84-year-old female who presented with an acute surgical abdomen. An exploratory laparotomy revealed complicated small bowel diverticula with a jejunal diverticulum perforation, for which a diverticulectomy was performed.
Conclusions:
Throughout this paper, we are aiming to outweigh the consideration of the possibility of complicated small bowel diverticula as a differential in the evaluation of any acute abdomen, especially in the elderly, which warrants emergency surgical management.
