Meckel's diverticulum is often encountered incidentally during laparotomy and is infrequently a cause of morbidity and mortality in the surgical patients. Its diagnosis as an etiology of significant pathology often requires a high index of suspicion.

Aug 20, 2024 · Those with Meckel’s diverticulitis will often require urgent surgery, whereby a Meckel’s diverticulectomy can be performed, which can be performed either open or laparoscopically.

What is the treatment for Meckel’s diverticulum? If Meckel’s diverticulum causes complications, surgery can fix it. The procedure is called a small bowel resection. It just means cutting out the small piece of the bowel with the diverticulum in it. Most people won’t need surgery.

Meckel diverticulectomy is surgery to remove an abnormal pouch of the lining of the small intestine (bowel). This pouch is called a Meckel diverticulum.

Depending on the configuration of the neck of the diverticulum it can be excised with or without small bowel resection. If after a diverticulum alone is excised, the small bowel is closed transversely to prevent stenosis.

Aug 23, 2023 · A population-based study indicated an increasing lifetime risk of operation for Meckel diverticulum-related complications and suggested removing an incidentally detected Meckel...

Open surgery has long been used as an effective method to deal with complicated Meckel's diverticulum. However, in this age of minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic management of complicated Meckel's diverticulum is safe, cost effective and efficient as …