Credit: Getty Images. Patients who underwent colonoscopy after 7 days following their diverticular bleeding episodes demonstrated a significantly higher risk of 30-day mortality. Early colonoscopy ...

The clinical challenge of colonic diverticular bleeding has evolved over recent decades, with advances in diagnostic procedures and therapeutic approaches substantially influencing patient outcomes.

Most of the duodenal diverticula are diagnosed incidentally and asymptomatic, 12% to 27 % at endoscopy. Only 5% to 10% of patients with duodenal diverticula suffer from clinical symptoms. Furthermore, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese people appear to be at increased risk for diverticulitis and for bleeding diverticula, results of a new study indicate. Diverticula are small pouches that form in the ...

Adults who are discharged from the hospital following acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding (ALGIB) face a high risk for recurrence and increased mortality associated with rebleeding. Rebleeding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's easy to see your body aging on the outside – wrinkles, dark spots, gray hair, the whole shebang – but as we grow older, our ...

Many people have small pouches in the lin­ing of the colon, or large intestine, that bulge outward through weak spots. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. Multiple pouches are called diverticula. The ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has recently been diagnosed with diverticulitis, which has been cited as the cause of his ...

If you regularly deal with abdominal pain, it could be a sign of a gastrointestinal issue that becomes more common with age. Diverticulosis occurs when small pouches called diverticula form in the ...