Diverticular Disease
What is a risk factor for diverticuli disease?
Alcohol
What is Saint Traid?
Cholelithiasis Hiatal hernia Diverticular disease occur together
What is considered a pseudodiverticuli ?
Diverticula are small. . .outpouchings of the colon that occur in rows at sites of vascular penetration BETWEEN the single mesenteric taenia and ONE of the ANTI-MESENTERIC taenia. At the sites of most diverticula, the muscular layers is absent.
Colonic diverticuli are _______________ T/F?
False
What causes a colonic diverticula?
Increased luminal pressure btw the longitudinal taenia coli muscle bands the btw the circular muscle rings where the BP penetrate
What are diverticula
Out-pouching of all or portion of the hollow viscus
Whats the most common location of colonic diverticula?
Sigmoid colon
Meckel's Diveticuli is an example of a true or false?
True
What is the difference btw true and false diverticulum?
True: all layers of the tube False: Some layers of the tube
What are symptoms of Diverticuli?
asymptomatic Bleeding (can be massive)
LLQ pain, bleeding diagnosis?
colonic Diverticuli
What is the treatment for bleeding diverticuli?
most will stop w/o intervention