Diverticulosis is a medical condition characterized by small sacs, or diverticula, in the lining of the large intestine. There is a chance that these pouches may become inflamed or infected ...

When it comes to health conditions, your body often takes sides. In fact, there are many illnesses that predominantly affect one side of the body - and that's not simply because we favour one side.

We present three lung transplant recipients who had sigmoid colonic diverticular perforation within 4 weeks of transplantation, giving an overall incidence of 8.6% (3 of 35) in our population.

Diverticula are most common in the sigmoid colon in North America and Europe, because this is where the contents of the intestine put the most pressure on the muscular wall (in these populations).