Emergency surgery was the main option for patients with severe complications of diverticular disease, including peritonitis. In most studies, in-hospital mortality for patients treated surgically ...

Conclusively, current medical and surgical therapy of acute diverticulitis is effective ... to be higher in patients undergoing emergency surgery than those treated conservatively, this finding ...

One of the reasons that the correct diagnosis is essential is because the treatments for ulcerative colitis versus those for diverticulitis are quite different. Lifestyle changes can include altering ...

Diverticulitis, inflamed intestinal pouches, can become so severe that the intestine ruptures. Andreas Samuelsson’s doctoral thesis compares the two common methods used to treat this condition. His ...

A pilonidal cyst is a cyst or abscess (boil) located near the intergluteal cleft, otherwise known as the groove between the buttocks. Treatment usually requires having a pilonidal cyst removed ...

Antibiotics may be able to treat a spinal abscess if a person receives an early diagnosis and there are no neurological symptoms. However, some people may also require surgery to drain the abscess.

Last week a patient came to see me looking very unwell. Having just come out of hospital after her first attack of diverticulitis, she was understandably anxious to learn how to ward off further ...

(Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) Doctors consider Mohs surgery the best treatment for two of the most common types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).

Mohs surgery is a highly specialized technique for treating skin cancer. Johns Hopkins dermatologic surgeon Elise Ng, M.D., explains the procedure. Mohs surgery is a precise and effective surgical ...