The incidence of diverticulitis is rising in the United States.
Diverticulitis being the most common cause of intestinovaginal fistula, their rates can hence be expected to increase accordingly. Surgery is the treatment of choice, unless contraindicated by medical reasons and restoration to full health not feasible.
Laparoscopy rates for colon cancer and for diverticulitis have been increasing, but is the laparoscopy rate for  intestinovesical fistula **% equal or increasing in the same manner? Stoma rates for colon cancer and diverticulitis are **%, and reported as **% for fistulizing disease.
Complication rates are lower in laparoscopy compared to open surgery for both diverticulitis and colon cancer. This has not been shown in intestinovesical fistula????*** We wished to understand what determines how we surgically treat these patients, and if the laparoscopic approach is safe or safer than open.
Laparoscopy has been shown to be beneficial in many surgical conditions in terms of length of stay, return to work, post-operative pain, etc, but is it beneficial in the management of intestinovesical fistula?
In the present study, we identified all patients who underwent abdominal surgery (for the principal diagnosis of intestinovesical fistula (ICD-9 code ***) to determine the surgical approach, type of resection, risk factors, and complications.
Given the complex nature of the disease, intestinovesical fistula is
A drawback with ACS-NSQIP is that only one ICD code is recorded for each patient, precluding the question of etiology of the fistula. 

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