Diagnosis and treatment of definitive diverticular hemorrhage (DDH)
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Diverticular disease: diagnosis and treatment.
Diverticular disease refers to symptomatic and asymptomatic disease with an underlying pathology of colonic diverticula. Predisposing factors for the formation of diverticula include a low-fiber diet and physical inactivity. Approximately 85 percent of patients with diverticula are believed to remain asymptomatic. Symptomatic disease without inflammation is a diagnosis of exclusion requiring co...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0002-9270
DOI: 10.1038/s41395-018-0061-4