Disease relevance of Diverticulum, Colon

• Review of health records for the 4-year period subsequent to accession of sera showed that 6 (14%) of the 44 persons positive for CEA died of CEA associated cancers, 15 were heavy smokers, 2 had colonic diverticula and 1 a peptic ulcer [1].

High impact information on Diverticulum, Colon

• Acute perforation of colonic diverticula associated with short-term indomethacin [2].
• Control colonic diverticula demonstrated normal structures or, only occasionally, minimal eccentric intimal thickening in their associated vasa recta [3].
• Successful endoscopic hemostasis of bleeding colonic diverticula with epinephrine injection [4].
• Eleven of 12 were diagnosed preoperatively on computerized tomography by the triad of air in the bladder, thickened colon adjacent to an area of thickened bladder, and the presence of colonic diverticula [5].
• For those animals with colonic diverticula, gastrin cell counts were increased 55% at 2 weeks (503 +/- 23 cells per cm versus 320 +/- 13 cells per cm for shams) [6].

Chemical compound and disease context of Diverticulum, Colon

• Delayed diagnosis of steroid-induced colon diverticulum perforation [7].

Gene context of Diverticulum, Colon

• Prevention with histamine H2 receptor antagonists and early surgical treatment of complicated colonic diverticula help to reduce the morbidity and mortality in kidney graft recipients [8].

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