Edward John Hinchey (1934 to Present): Father of Modern Age of Acute Complicated Diverticulitis of the Colon

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2016 is going to be 40th anniversary since a young promising surgeon coming from Canada revolutionized the fashion of grouping and treating the acute diverticulitis of the large bowel: that surgeon was—and still is—Edward John Hinchey (Fig. 1) [1]. As of 2016, infact, the Hinchey classification, the famous four tier sorting of acute complicated colonic diverticulitis which was named after him, is still the staging system most frequently adopted worldwide for the study and management of this disease. For this useful and popular legacy, but also for other notable merits listed below, Professor Hinchey will go down in history as the father of the modern age of acute diverticulitis of the colon. The following information is based on repeated email interviews we had the honor to conduct with Professor E. J. Hinchey and is reproduced courtesy of Professor himself; when reported, his own words were printed in italics.

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