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

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 ...

Treatment approaches for diverticulitis are evolving, with less emphasis on automatic antibiotic use and surgery. Diverticular disease might sound like a fancy medical term but it’s surprisingly ...