In the Clinic: Acute colonic diverticulitis

An In the Clinic article published by Annals of Internal Medicine on March 12 provides an overview of the diagnosis and treatment of acute colonic diverticulitis. It notes that clinical presentation ranges from mild abdominal pain to peritonitis with sepsis and that the condition is often diagnosed on the basis of clinical features alone, but imaging is necessary in more severe presentations to rule out such complications as abscess and perforation.

The editors of Annals develop In the Clinic with the assistance of additional physician writers, MKSAP, and other resources of ACP.