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

The sigmoid colon is located on the left side of the abdomen ... to go to the emergency department right away or even to call 911. In most cases diverticulitis is uncomplicated, but severe ...

pain in your bowel (usually in the lower left-hand quadrant above your groin) and constipation or diarrhoea (often alternating between the two). And if the diverticula - clusters of little pockets ...

You might be dealing with diverticulitis, a condition that occurs when small pouches form in the colon and become inflamed or infected. Diverticulitis is more common as you age, affecting ...

We included original studies that reported comparative data for at least one outcome in medically- and surgically-treated patients with transverse or left colon diverticulitis. The main outcomes ...

To understand diverticulitis, you must first understand what’s going on inside your colon — not the most comforting thought but a necessary one. Sometimes — for reasons not exactly ...

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 ...