There is still controversy regarding the appropriate management of diverticulitis of the colon in cases when both surgical and conservative treatment may be an option. We performed a systematic review ...

Reflecting research-driven changes in clinical practice, a revised set of evidence-based recommendations for the medical and surgical treatment of left-sided colonic diverticulitis has been published ...

THE purpose of this paper is to advocate a more aggressive attitude toward the surgical treatment of diverticulitis of the colon, which in the past has usually been withheld until after complications ...

What do abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and inflammation have in common? They’re all symptoms of diverticulitis, which is a painful medical condition that mostly affects people over the age of 50.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An observational treatment strategy for uncomplicated acute diverticulitis did not result in short- or long-term ...

The treatment of a common bowel condition, diverticulitis varies widely across the world. In particular the use of antibiotics is "alarmingly high" according to the biggest data analysis of the ...

If you have diverticulitis, a potentially painful type of inflammation or infection within the intestines, you know that what you eat and drink can have an impact on how you manage your condition. Can ...

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 controlled ...