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Injection therapy for colonic diverticular bleeding. A case study
1Division of Gastroenterology, Wellesley Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
We report a successful colonoscopic identification of acute massive diverticular bleeding in an elderly patient and successful injection therapy with epinephrine. Colonoscopy is a valuable diagnostic tool in acute lower gastrointestinal (LGI) bleeding when the colon can be adequately visualized. Peridiverticular injection therapy should be considered a safe and effective therapeutic option when the bleeding site can be established.