Medscape April 22, 2024
BOSTON — Patients with acute colonic diverticulitis are more likely to be seen by primary care providers than by emergency physicians, representing a shift in the way clinicians detect and treat the condition.
Acute colonic diverticulitis affects roughly 180 per 100,000 people per year in the United States.
CT of the abdomen and pelvis may not be a first-line method to detect diverticulitis in the primary care setting as it has been in emergent care, according to Kaveh Sharzehi, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
Indeed, clinical guidelines by multiple physician groups recommend that providers use a more individualized approach to...
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