Some patients with diverticular disease experience more serious symptoms and complications.

What are the serious symptoms and complications of diverticulitis?

More serious symptoms and complications of diverticular disease include:

• diverticulitis (rupture or infection of the diverticulum),
• a collection of puss in the pelvis (an abscess),
• colonic obstruction,
• generalized infection of the abdominal cavity (bacterial peritonitis), and
• bleeding into the colon.