Colonic diverticular bleeding (CDB) is a common complication associated with diverticular disease, where small pouches (diverticula) form in the colon wall. When these diverticula bleed ...

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

However, readmission to the hospital due to diverticular disease during follow ... treatment of patients with transverse or left colon diverticulitis from relatively recent studies published ...

Text Callout : Key Takeaways: Diverticulitis: What to Know and How to Prevent It Normally, the lining of your colon is smooth. Diverticulosis occurs when small pockets, called diverticula ...

Sometimes — for reasons not exactly understood — small pouches or saclike protrusions, called diverticula, develop in the colon, most often in the lower part. This is called diverticulosis.

In the symptom-free stage of diverticulosis there may be dozens of small diverticula scattered along the colon. In the “S” Bend. Though the colon averages 5 ft. in length, the vast majority of ...

More information: Jungkyun Seo et al, Genetic and transcriptomic landscape of colonic diverticulosis, Gut (2024). DOI: ...

In patients with cured or controlled acromegaly prevalence of colonic diverticula is double that seen in controls (37% versus 19%), according to a Dutch research group. This novel finding “adds ...

PATIENTS AND METHODS: This cohort comprised 8 patients with generalized peritonitis secondary to perforated diverticular disease of the left colon that was diagnosed laparoscopically. All the ...