Figure 6.

Lower gastrointestinal bleed from acute diverticulitis. Seventy-three-year-old male patient with bloody diarrhea, severely hypotensive (blood pressure 70/40) requiring 10 units of packed red blood cells. A and B: Contrast enhanced computed tomography abdomen demonstrates acute diverticulitis at the hepatic flexure, with active hemorrhage; C: Visceral angiography demonstrates the region of active bleeding in the ascending colon at the hepatic flexure; D: Successful distal Gelfoam and coil embolization of the supplying right colic artery branches.