One of the most common problems of people in recent years are the pathology of the gastrointestinal tract. Especially annoying mature patients after 40 years of diverticulosis. Diagnosis of this pathology is often accidental, occurring when other ailments of the gastrointestinal tract are detected or even on the operating table during surgical intervention. This situation is due to the fact that pathological protrusions almost never have specific signs, and it is quite difficult to suspect their presence by the presence of a certain symptomatology in the patient. But nevertheless there are a number of anxious symptoms that can presumably indicate that the patient is diagnosed with diverticulosis. A symptomatology that should arouse suspicion and cause a person to immediately consult a gastroenterologist or proctologist for certain studies necessary to detect the disease. It is as follows:
- Not passing long time painful sensations in the lower left part of the abdomen;
- Disturbances of the stool, expressed in frequent constipation, occasionally intermittent diarrhea;
- Unexpected occurrence of rectal bleeding.
This sudden appearance of symptoms, which lasts for a while, indicates that the patient urgently needs a diagnosis of the diverticulum, allowing the specialist to identify the presence of pathology, and therefore in time to conduct adequate therapy. This will make it possible to avoid the inflammation or perforation of the pathological protrusion, and therefore the need for surgical intervention will disappear.
Colonoscopy for the diagnosis of diverticulosis
Before carrying out the diagnostic tests necessary in this case, a specialist must prescribe a special diet for the purification of the intestine. Also, the use of Fortrans powders is recommended, and not the classical enema. This solution, prepared from diluted in 4 liters of water 4 packets of the drug, will best prepare the intestine for the forthcoming study. To conduct research aimed at detecting the presence of inflammatory diverticula in the intestine of the patient, laboratory studies of feces and blood, tomography, fluoroscopy with contrast agent and colonoscopy are necessary.
With the help of these techniques it is possible to differentiate pathology from IBS, malignant tumors of the large intestine, ischemic colitis and other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract of the gastrointestinal tract. Cal at diverticulosis is a mandatory laboratory diagnostic study. With the help of it, a specialist can detect microperforation, which occurred in pathological saccular protrusions. It will be indicated by the presence of hidden blood in the feces submitted for analysis.
When diagnosing a patient for diverticulosis, colonoscopy also plays an important role. It allows to identify and identify complications of the disease - areas of cancer degeneration, perforation, ulcers, inflammation, etc. No less significant in detecting the presence of pathological protrusions in the intestine is the method of fibrocolonoscopy. These two diagnostic techniques for determining diverticulosis are similar, but there are small differences in them. Fibrokolonoskopiya due to the presence of the end of the tube of the illuminator and the camera in addition to the usual visual inspection of the digestive organ allows to make a video recording or take photographs of the internal surface of the intestine. Also, in the diagnosis of diverticulosis with the help of this study, it is possible to conduct a biopsy - to extract a part of the damaged tissue for further research.