Patients with complicated diverticulitis or who aren't current with colorectal cancer screening are at higher risk and should have follow-up colonoscopy to rule it out.

Most patients undergoing colonoscopy after diverticulitis had low risk for colorectal cancer, except those with complicated diverticulitis, whose risk was nearly four times greater than the ...

Robotic surgery is a viable and sometimes advantageous approach for emergency colorectal surgery, a setting in which it has ...

Robotic-assisted surgery is emerging as a viable and increasingly adopted option for emergency colorectal procedures, according to a July 23 study published in the Journal of the American College of ...

Q: I am a 55-year-old woman who was diagnosed with diverticulitis in July 2006, and had two more flare-ups in November 2006 and June 2007. My gastroenterologist is recommending that I have surgery ...

Both animal and human studies have linked low vitamin D levels with a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), diverticulitis, colon cancer, and liver ...

Temple Health colorectal surgery chief Juan Lucas Poggio says diverticulitis affects the same area over and over. "More than 90% of the attacks we have in this segment of the colon called the ...

Dr. Andrew Schlussel, a Colorectal Surgeon with HCA Florida Memorial Hospital joined the Morning Show to talk about diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, and anal cancer and how they all share similar ...

How to Prevent Diverticulitis Diverticulitis prevention starts at home. Eliminating risk factors — primarily lifestyle-related factors — is key.

Dr. Andrew Schlussel, a Colorectal Surgeon with HCA Florida Memorial Hospital joined the Morning Show to talk about diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, and anal cancer and how they all share similar ...

Devi Mukkai Krishnamurty, MBBS, VASCRS, FACS, is a fellowship-trained surgeon with expertise in the minimally invasive treatment of colon and rectal cancer, diverticulitis, inflammatory bowel disease, ...