Complicated(25%)
Uncomplicated diverticulitis:
Features
Left lower quadrant pain/tenderness
Leukocytosis
Fever
Imaging: CT scan soft tissue stranding and colon wall thickening
Treatment:
Outpatient- oral antibiotics, bowel rest
Complicated diverticulitis:
Diverticulitis+ abscess/perforation/fistula
Treatment:
< 3 cm pericolon fluid collection on CT:
IV antibiotics
> 3 cm fluid: CT guided percutaneous drainage
