uncomplicated acute diverticulitis. As such, not all cases require antibiotics. The guidelines call for antibiotic use in other situations, such as people with certain lab indicators of infection ...

“In the setting of acute diverticulitis ... It can take a few days for uncomplicated diverticulitis pain to improve. But this doesn’t mean that you have to live in agony.

There are two different kinds of diverticulitis, complicated and uncomplicated. Uncomplicated diverticulitis occurs when the diverticula become inflamed, and a lot of patients will experience ...

Although medical treatment results in more readmissions due to recurrence, it may be reasonable to avoid surgical therapy in the vast majority of patients with acute diverticulitis. It is unclear ...

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 ...