Is There an Impact of the Duration of Antibiotic Therapy on the Outcome of Nonsurgical Treatment of Complicated Diverticulitis?

Patients treated nonsurgically for complicated diverticulitis are managed by antibiotics. However, there are no recommendations concerning their duration. We aimed to determine the impact of the duration of antibiotic therapy on the risk of failure of nonsurgical treatment of complicated acute diverticulitis.This was a single-center retrospective study of patients with computer tomography (CT)-diagnosed complicated diverticulitis between January...