Prospective, Five-Year Follow-up Study of Patients with Symptomatic Uncomplicated Diverticular Disease

Abstract

In this prospective long-term study, symptomatic uncomplicated diverticular disease seems to run a long-term benign course with a very low incidence of subsequent complications. Symptomatic disease, acute diverticulitis, and complicated diverticular disease seem to constitute distinct clinical entities with little crossover between groups.