Diverticular Bleeding
Current as of: November 7, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine & Jerome B. Simon, MD, FRCPC, FACP – Gastroenterology
Diverticular bleeding is a condition in which pouches (diverticula) that have formed in the wall of the large intestine (colon) bleed. Bleeding into the colon occurs when the blood vessel going to the pouch breaks open. Sometimes a person with diverticular bleeding will have sudden, severe bleeding from the rectum…