Elective sigmoid resection for patients with recurrent, complicated, or persistent painful diverticulitis yielded a better quality of life and prevented recurrences compared with nonsurgical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mean quality of life score was nearly 10 points higher in surgery vs. conservative group at 1 year. Within 2 ...

Outpatient treatment of diverticulitis with amoxicillin-clavulanate is as effective as treatment with metronidazole plus a fluoroquinolone, according to a study published online February 22 February ...

Laparoscopic sigmoid resection significantly improved quality of life (QOL) in patients with recurrent, complicated, or persistent painful diverticulitis, though was associated with a small but ...

You may not have heard of diverticulitis – unless you've suffered through a bout of it – but by the age of 50, you have a 50/50 chance of your gut being primed for this painful condition to strike.

A new study found that eating small, hard foods like nuts, seeds, and corn was not linked to diverticulitis. This helps debunk the myth that these foods could get stuck in the colon, inflaming the ...

At the age of 70, 70 percent of the population will have diverticulosis. However, this doesn’t mean that all of these patients will ever experience diverticulitis. So, what’s the difference, and how ...

High consumption of red meat, particularly unprocessed red meat, is associated with an increased risk for diverticulitis, according to a study published online January 9 in Gut. "Our fidings were ...

A comprehensive analysis of over 5.2 million hospitalizations reveals a troubling surge in severe diverticulitis cases among Americans younger than 50. The analysis, led by researchers from UCLA and ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a 62-year-old male. In the six months since I was put on metformin, I have had two diverticulitis attacks (I’d never had one before). I believe the timing of these attacks is more ...