Randomized Clinical Trial for the Uncomplicated Diverticulitis in Right Colon

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2018-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

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.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular; Cephalosporins; Metronidazole

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Right-sided colonic diverticulitis

• Uncomplicated diverticulitis

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• Refuse to investigation

• Immunosuppressive therapy or immunologic incompetence

• Colonic diverticulitis except right-sided diverticulitis

• Complicated diverticulitis

• Disorder of psychology or cognition

• Allergic reaction to antibiotics being used in the study (3rd generation cephalosporin, quinolone, metronidazole)