Hemorrhage as a Complication of Diverticulitis*

Dangers of diverticulitis coli. An estimation of the place of resection in avoidance of complications

“…Even in their small series of 4 patients 2 died after emergency colectomies and a further patient died after colostomy only. Noer (1955) in an instructive paper describes the fate of 6 patients who had bled seriously from colonic diverticula. Three colon resections were done as emergencies and all died; a further three were done as elective procedures during quiescent phases and all three survived.…”

Diverticular Disease of the Colon

“…Mild rectal bleeding is common in diver ticular disease and its frequency has been reported by various authors as between 15 and 50% [Noer, 1955;Welch and Rodkey, 1956;Buck, 1958;Barborka. 1958].…”

The clinical features of haemorrhage from diverticula of the colon

“…DIVERTICULA OF THE COLON Noer (1955) has shown that there is a striking concentration of blood vessels in the vicinity of colonic diverticula. The illustrations of specimens of human colon (Fig.…”

“…as a presenting or major symptom in 21-6% of 111 cases; Bacon and Sherman (1950) noted an incidence of 18% in 117 cases. Noer (1955) assessed the incidence of macroscopic rectal bleeding in 2,896 recorded cases of diverticulosis and diverticulitis and found it to be at least 11 %, but in his own series of 68 cases 29 % had bleeding as a presenting or major symptom. In a similar survey Rushford (1956) found that haemorrhage occurred in 17 % of 6,000 recorded cases of diverticulitis and in a personal series of 120 cases bleeding had been a symptom in 27.5% of the cases.…”