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 ...

Diverticulosis references the diverticula, or small bulging pouches that develop over time in the colon. Diverticulitis ... The most common symptom is left lower quadrant pain.

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 ...

Following scans and tests, it is suspected that I have diverticular ... left lower abdomen), blood in the stool, changes in your normal bowel habit and inflammation in the colon.

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 ...