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