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Colon diverticula may require emergency or elective surgery depending on its complications. Our aim is to compare the Hartmann's procedure and resection with primary anastomosis in the patients with colon diverticulitis and to demonstrate the surgical approach of our clinic. Patients were evaluated retrospectively who were operated for colon diverticulitis between January 2010 and January 2020. The patients who underwent emergency surgery for left colon diverticulitis were divided into two groups as patients with primary anastomosis resection (group 1) and Hartmann's procedure (group 2) and the groups were compared. In the aspect of the development of complications there was no remarkable difference between the groups (P= .56). Postoperative early mortality rate was similar in two groups (P= .12). According to the Hinchey classification, 31.7% of the cases were stage I, 9.8% were stage II, 31.7% were stage III, and 26.8% were stage IV. There was not a distinction in morbidity and mortality rates between Hartmann's procedure and resection with primary anastomosis. The best surgical approach should be determined by considering the operation to be performed, the patient's preferences, clinical status, and the predicted results of the surgical treatment of perforated diverticulitis.

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Abstract.This study examines the short-term behavioral and neural effects of an educational mobile game called MathDash on computational fluency. A portable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIR) device was used to monitor changes in the prefrontal cortices of middle school students due to game-based training. Our aim is to explore changes in neural activity at regions in the prefrontal cortex associated with the management of working memory and attentional resources due to arithmetic training with MathDash. Overall, our results indicated that playing MathDash for a short duration of time elicited behavioral improvements as well as functional changes in bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.