Diverticulitis in patients younger than aged 40 years seems to have a particularly aggressive and fulminant course and requires early surgical procedures for complications (associated abscess, colonic perforation) in 40 percent of cases. The use of "major procedure" (i.e., stoma) is more frequent in these patients.
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