At the age of 70, 70 percent of the population will have diverticulosis. However, this doesn’t mean that all of these ...

To understand diverticulitis, you must first understand what’s going on inside your colon ... because diverticula may not cause symptoms, it’s possible to have one or more without knowing ...

You might be dealing with diverticulitis, a condition that occurs when small pouches form in the colon and ... those pockets – or acute inflammation or infection of the diverticula, says Dr ...

There is still controversy regarding the appropriate management of diverticulitis of the colon in cases when both ... with severe complications of diverticular disease, including peritonitis.

patients with colonic diverticula had longer disease duration than those without colonic diverticula. The researchers attributed this finding to the duration of a patient's exposure to raised ...

Diverticular disease is a common gastrointestinal ... imaging for diagnosing acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis, especially when there is uncertainty in diagnosis. The guidelines suggest ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;22(9):1360-1368. Our study has several limitations. The most important limitation is that the comparative studies we included in our review were not randomized ...