Talk:Diverticulitis

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just so you guys know, i made those previous changes. i used some surgical textbooks as a source.

Please sign your comments and learn better surgery.TuppenceABag (talk) 16:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Relationship to Alcohol

My understanding is that sustained, heavy drinking sharply increases the risk for developing diverticulitis. Any thoughts? --bamjd3d

[edit] Famous Sufferers?

I think it would give this subject just the kind of pizazz it's currently lacking. Does anyone know any? I think RnB sensation Usher may have it.

Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was recently treated for it. But isn't it a bit inappropriate to list famous patients? Cholerashot 21:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Isn't this the condition that the World's longest serving leader Fidel Castro is currently being treated for?

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I question why we need any referance to "famous" people, this dosn't provide any information about the condition, it's just tabloid fodder.

DCwom (talk) 12:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] deleted current event

i deleted the current event status along with the fidel reference. a medical disease is obviously not a 'current event' nor does figuring castro so prominently in the article make sense. if he's going to be in there, then yes, at least create a famous sufferers section and place it at the bottom.

[edit] External link

I find the external link http://www.medstudents.com.br/gastro/gastro2.htm to be of negligible value and most of the information is already incorporated in the article. Anyone object if I delete it? Webquest 18:24, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Laws of Laplace

I don't know where this nonsense came from--I hope they don't teach this in medical schools. Laws of Laplace apply to fast flowing fluids, and they would lead to the lowering of the pressure in narrower passages. I removed this pseudo-scientific explanation. — Bartosz 07:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Right-sided diverticular disease

I am not sure how accurate this statement is "Left-sided diverticular disease (involving the sigmoid colon) is most common in the West, while right-sided diverticular disease is more prevalent in Asia and Africa". The sigmoid colon is the weakest part of the colon with the most pressure that may cose diverticula. Why would Asia and Africa develop right-sided diverticular disease? Thanks for an explanation. Worldedixor 18:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely. I suffered from it in the middle, however medically it probably just appeared as one or the other side most of the time, so the assumption was made. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.170.179 (talk) 07:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NEJM

Clinical practice article. JFW | T@lk 02:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

And one from Am J Gastro: doi:10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.01879.x JFW | T@lk 10:31, 14 May 2008 (UTC)