Recent guidelines from the American College of Physicians emphasize the importance of using computed tomography (CT) imaging for diagnosing acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis, especially when ...

Design We conducted DNA and RNA sequencing on colonic tissue from 404 patients with (N=172) and without (N=232) diverticulosis ... Individuals with an increased genetic proclivity to diverticulitis ...

Colonoscopy 3 months prior to presentation demonstrated a benign cecal polyp, 8 mm adenoma of the transverse colon, benign polyp of the descending colon and diverticulosis without evidence ... the ...

Background There is an increasing trend of right-sided acute colonic diverticulitis seen in the young Asian population. Methods A retrospective cross-sectional study of 169 Filipino patients diagnosed ...

The condition has been associated with low fiber intake, increased colonic transit time, and increased intraluminal pressure in the colon, leading to the development of diverticula (2). It is ...

Complicated diverticulitis is an uncommon ... He underwent to colonoscopy that showed left-sided diverticulosis and a 3 cm irregular mass in the sigmoid. During biopsy sampling due to the suspect of ...