In patients with recurring, persistent painful, or complicated diverticulitis, early surgery prevented recurrences but did not significantly improve quality of life (QOL) compared with conservative ...

Symptoms of diverticulitis typically include sudden lower abdominal pain often on the left side. Some patients also ...

Conclusively, current medical and surgical therapy of acute diverticulitis is effective ... to be higher in patients undergoing emergency surgery than those treated conservatively, this finding ...

Researchers have found in a new study that among patients with recurrent diverticulitis, surgery may offer a viable option to ...

"A diverticulitis attack that — I had a perforation ... bottle and it going through your insides." Rogers had to have surgery. "The doctor explained to me if I did wait and I had another attack ...

Antibiotic treatment for acute diverticulitis has several potential ... 118 patients (3 patients who did not respond also underwent surgery); for the remaining 193 patients, treatment consisted ...