Society guideline links: Colonic diverticular disease

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery (SICG), Italian Hospital Surgeons Association (ACOI), Italian Emergency Surgery and Trauma Association (SICUT), Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care (AcEMC), and Italian Society of Surgical Pathophysiology (SIFIPAC): Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute left colonic diverticulitis in the elderly (2022)

●WSES: Update of the guidelines for the management of acute colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting (2020)

●WSES: Guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections – The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective (2017)

●WSES: Position paper for management of perforated sigmoid diverticulitis (2013)

●World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO): Practice guidelines on diverticular disease (2007)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on left lower quadrant pain (revised 2023)

●American College of Physicians (ACP): A clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis (2022)

●ACP: A clinical guideline on colonoscopy for diagnostic evaluation and interventions to prevent recurrence after acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis (2022)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Clinical practice update on medical management of colonic diverticulitis – Expert review (2021)

●American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS): Clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of left-sided colonic diverticulitis (2020)

●European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) and Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES): 2018 consensus conference on acute diverticulitis management – Evidence-based recommendations for clinical practice (published 2019)

●Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT): Evidence-based current surgical practice for management of diverticulitis (2017)

●SSAT: Evidence-based current surgical practice on minimally invasive surgery for complicated diverticulitis (2017)

●SSAT: Evidence-based current surgical practice on colorectal emergencies – Perforated diverticulitis (operative and nonoperative management) (2014)

●Western Trauma Association (WTA): Critical decisions in trauma – Management of complicated diverticulitis (2012)

•WTA: Algorithm for management of complicated diverticulitis

Europe

●European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP): Guidelines for the management of diverticular disease of the colon (2020)

●European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) and Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES): 2018 consensus conference on acute diverticulitis management – Evidence-based recommendations for clinical practice (published 2019)

●European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB): Position paper – Recommendations for gastrointestinal ultrasound (GIUS) in acute appendicitis and diverticulitis (2019)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on diverticular disease – Diagnosis and management (2019)

●Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) of England: Commissioning guide – Colonic diverticular disease (2014)

●Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI): Position statement on elective resection for diverticulitis (2012)

Japan

●[In English] Japan Gastroenterological Association (JGA): Guidelines for colonic diverticular bleeding and colonic diverticulitis (2019)

●[In Japanese] JGA: Guidelines for diverticulosis of the large intestine (2017)