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Última atualização: 27 Feb 2025

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • dor abdominal no quadrante inferior esquerdo
  • febre

Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • defesa no quadrante inferior esquerdo
  • sensibilidade no quadrante inferior esquerdo
  • dor à descompressão brusca
  • desconforto abdominal difuso
  • alteração no hábito intestinal
  • massa abdominal palpável

Fatores de risco

  • idade >50 anos
  • dieta pobre em fibras
  • dieta rica em sal, carne e açúcar
  • obesidade (índice de massa corporal [IMC] >30)
  • uso de anti-inflamatórios não esteroidais (AINEs), corticosteroides ou opioides
  • tabagismo
  • consumo de bebidas alcoólicas

Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • Hemograma completo com diferencial
  • proteína C-reativa
  • perfil metabólico básico
  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) com contraste do abdome

Investigações a serem consideradas

  • hemocultura
  • Gasometria arterial e lactato sérico
  • TC sem contraste do abdome
  • ultrassonografia abdominal (compressão graduada)
  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) abdominal
  • colonoscopia ou sigmoidoscopia
  • laparoscopia diagnóstica/laparotomia exploratória

Algoritmo de tratamento

Colaboradores

Autores

Marilyse Boutros, MD, FACS, FRCSC

Vice-Chair and Regional Director of Research for the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital

Colorectal Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic Florida

Weston

FL

Clinical Affiliate Professor of Surgery, Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton

FL

Professor of Surgery, McGill University

Montreal

Canada

Declarações

MB has received teaching honorarium from Ethicon and Johnson and Johnson.

Sameh Hany Emile, MBBCh, MSc, MD, FACS

Project Scientist

Department of Colorectal Surgery

Cleveland Clinic Florida

Weston

FL

Clinical Affiliate Associate Professor of Surgery

Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton

FL

Associate Professor of Surgery

Mansoura University Faculty of Medicine

Mansoura City

Egypt

Declarações

SHE receives consultancy fees from Becton, Dickinson and Company.

Agradecimentos

Dr Marilyse Boutros and Dr Sameh Hany Emile would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Mohamed A. Thaha, Dr Jayan D. Jayasinghe, Dr Emma Carrington, Ms Kathryn Lynes, Professor Norman S. Williams, and Dr Abbasi Akhtar, the previous contributors to this topic.

Declarações

MAT declares he has no competing interests. JDJ declares that he has no competing interests. EC has received honoraria for teaching, and acts as a consultant for Laborie Medical Management Systems. KL has received funding for a research fellowship from the David Johnston Fellowship through the Royal College of Surgeons of England. NSW is an author of a reference cited in this topic. AA declares that he has no competing interests.

Revisores

Ned Snyder, MD, FACP

Professor of Medicine

Chief of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston

TX

Declarações

NS declares that he has no competing interests.

Nicolas Regenet, MD

Clinic of digestive and endocrine surgery

University Hospital

Nantes

France

Declarações

NR declares that he has no competing interests.

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