- Title
- Increased mucosal eosinophils in colonic diverticulosis and diverticular disease
- Creator
- Cameron, Raquel; Walker, Marjorie M.; Jones, Michael; Eslick, Guy D.; Keely, Simon; Pockney, Peter; Cosentino, Carolina C.; Talley, Nicholas J.
- Relation
- Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Vol. 38, Issue 8, p. 1355-1364
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgh.16278
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- AIMS: Eosinophils contribute to tissue homeostasis, damage, and repair. The mucosa of colonic diverticula has not been evaluated for eosinophils by quantitative histology. We aimed to investigate whether mucosal eosinophils and other immune cells are increased in colonic diverticula. METHODS: Hematoxylin and eosin stained sections from colonic surgical resections (n = 82) containing diverticula were examined. Eosinophils, neutrophils, and lymphocytes, in five high power fields in the lamina propria were counted at the base, neck, and ostia of the diverticulum and counts compared to non-diverticula mucosa. The cohort was further subgrouped by elective and emergency surgical indications. RESULTS: Following an initial review of 10 surgical resections from patients with diverticulosis, a total of 82 patients with colonic resections containing diverticula from the descending colon were evaluated (median age 71.5, 42 M/40F). Eosinophil counts for the entire cohort were increased in the base and neck (median 99 and 42, both P = <0.001) compared with the control location (median 16). Eosinophil counts remained significantly increased in the diverticula base (both P = <0.001) and neck (P = 0.01 and <0.001, respectively) in both elective and emergency cases. Lymphocytes were also significantly increased at the diverticula base compared to controls in both elective and emergency subgroups. CONCLUSION: Eosinophils are significantly and most strikingly increased within the diverticulum in resected colonic diverticula. While these observations are novel, the role of eosinophil and chronic inflammation is as yet unclear in the pathophysiology of colonic diverticulosis and diverticular disease.
- Subject
- anatomical histopathology; diverticular disease; diverticulitis; diverticulosis; eosinophil; epidemiology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1485826
- Identifier
- uon:51709
- Identifier
- ISSN:0815-9319
- Rights
- © 2023 The Authors. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology published by Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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