Acute Diverticulitis in the Young: The Same Disease in a Different Patient

Table 3

Patients’ symptoms, signs, and complications.

Parameter	≤50 years	>50 years	𝑃
Number	23	57
Site of pain
Lower left quadrant and hypogastrium	18 (78.3%)	35 (61.4%)	0.195
Lower left quadrant and diffuse	—	22 (38.6%)	0.000
Lower right quadrant and hypogastrium	5 (21.7%)	—	0.001
Stypsis	3 (13%)	10 (17.5%)	0.747
Diarrhea	0	6 (10.5%)	0.175
Dysuria	0	2 (3.5%)	0.906
Tenesmus	0	2 (3.5%)	0.906
Fever > 38°C	13 (56.5%)	19 (33.3%)	0.078
Bleeding	1 (4.3%)	5 (8.7%)	0.833
Severe diverticulitis	15 (65.2%)	35 (61.4%)	0.804
Hinchey 1-2	2 (8.6%)	7 (12.3%)	0.945
Hinchey 3-4	6 (26.0%)	15 (26.3%)	0.795
Duration of symptoms (hours), median (95% CI)	24 (23.78–48.00)	48 (31.80–49.15)	0.009
Range (hours)	20–96	10–120
Duration > 24 hours	12 (52.1%)	27 (47.3%)	0.279
Prior history of diverticulitis	(30.4%)	28 (49.1%)	0.332
First episode	16 (69.6%)	29 (50.9%)
WBC/mm^3, median (95% CI)	12700 (11960.33–14519.00)	12000 (9956.47–14259.17)	0.002
Range	5500–17300	2100–28400
WBC > 10500/mm^3	20 (86.9%)	34 (59.6%)	0.020

CI: confidence interval; WBC: white blood cell.