While colonic diverticular hemorrhage has a less severe course and stops spontaneously in 70-80% of cases without therapeutic intervention, patients with endoscopic stigmata of recent hemorrhage, such as adherent clots, visible vessels, or active bleeding, are at high risk of early rebleeding, and endoscopic, surgical, or angiographic intervention is required in those cases.1'2 Recently, endoscopic therapies, including epinephrine injection, contact thermal therapy, endoclips, and endoscopic band ligation (EBL), have been applied to the treatment of colonic diverticular hemorrhage for hemo-stasis and preventing further hemorrhage.We report a rare experience of EBL for colonic diverticular rebleeding after endoscopic clipping.
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