BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: Angiographic and surgical therapy are standards of care for persistent diverticular bleeding. Colonoscopic intervention using epinephrine injection, multipolar ...

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 ...

“I never predict. I just look out of the window and see what is visible—but not yet seen.” Peter Drucker (1909–2005, writer and management consultant). Predicting the future necessitates ...

From digestive conditions to more serious health concerns, discover why medical experts emphasize the importance of not ignoring blood in your stool.

However, it may lead to diverticular disease, which is when diverticula cause symptoms, such as bleeding or pain, but they do not cause infection or inflammation. Diverticular disease may cause ...

This advice is based on a rather intuitive notion that colonic luminal trauma from these foods might initiate inflammation or bleeding within diverticula. In a prospective cohort study of 47,228 ...

Esophageal varices do not usually cause symptoms until a GI bleed develops. Most people with esophageal varices have chronic liver disease, which may cause symptoms such as: Diverticular disease ...