ALLMedicine™ Appendicitis Center

Oct 1st, 2022 - BACKGROUND Sarcomatoid carcinoma is a rare tumor that can occur in different organs and anatomical locations. Colonic sarcomatoid carcinoma, also known as carcinosarcoma, is an extremely rare tumor, with only 32 cases reported world-wide. The path...

Oct 1st, 2022 - In the last decades, several clinical scores have been developed and currently used to improve the diagnosis and risk management of patients with suspected acute appendicitis (AA). However, some of them exhibited different values of sensitivity an...

Oct 1st, 2022 - This narrative review aims to collate the data in the existing literature on appendicoliths, by reviewing the available information on appendicoliths that have been previously reported in 24 publications, and providing the information in one artic...

Sep 29th, 2022 - This study aims to clarify the relationship between changes in skeletal muscle mass during treatment and prognosis of pediatric malignant solid tumors. Patients with pediatric malignant solid tumors who were treated at Kyushu University Hospital f...

Sep 29th, 2022 - The endoscopic retrograde appendicitis therapy in the treatment of appendiceal abscess: a preliminary exploration.|2022|Wu R,Fu M,Fan WT,Tao YW,Fan ZN,|therapy,diagnostic imaging,surgery,

Jan 10th, 2021 - The French Society of Digestive Surgery (SFCD) and the Society of Abdominal and Digestive Imaging (SIAD) have collaborated to propose recommendations for clinical practice in the management of adult appendicitis. An analysis of the literature was ...

Mar 12th, 2020 - The epidemiology and the outcomes of acute appendicitis in elderly patients are very different from the younger population. Elderly patients with acute appendicitis showed higher mortality, higher perforation rate, lower diagnostic accuracy, longe...

Jun 26th, 2019 - Acute right colonic diverticulitis (ARCD) is an important differential diagnosis of acute appendicitis (AA) in Asian countries because of the unusually high prevalence of right colonic diverticula. Due to qualitative improvement and the high penet...

May 6th, 2019 - Acute appendicitis represents the most common abdominal surgical urgency/emergency in children. Imaging remains a central tool in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis and has been shown to facilitate management and decrease the rate of negative app...

Mar 26th, 2019 - Acute appendicitis (AA) has been considered one of the most common acute surgical conditions in the world. Recent studies, however, have suggested that nonoperative management (NOM) with a course of antibiotics (ABX) may be as effective as surgery...

Sep 16th, 2022 - Patients presenting to the operating room for laparoscopic appendectomy with a diagnosis of acute appendicitis require rapid sequence induction (RSI) due to significant vomiting and concern for increased gastric content. For this reason, succinylc...

Sep 7th, 2022 - Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause mild to severe respiratory infections. 2019-nCoV is a novel coronavirus that was discovered in Wuhan, China. Since its discovery in humans in late 2019, it has had a global, rapid spread. ...

Sep 1st, 2022 - This study is for pediatric patients who are having an appendectomy and have a perforated appendix. The purpose of this study is to see whether antibiotic irrigation using gentamicin, clindamycin and suction during the surgery works better when co...

Sep 1st, 2022 - The purpose of this study is to see if decreasing the amount of antibiotics after appendicitis surgery can decrease the risk of adverse effects associated with antibiotics while at the same time ensuring participant safety.

Aug 24th, 2022 - Patients admitted at Marshall Health - Cabell Huntington Hospital with the diagnosis of acute perforated appendicitis or appendicular abscess larger than 3cm will be admitted and treated with percutaneous drainage and the IV antibiotics for 3 days...

Oct 5th, 2022 - Nine years ago, my Uncle Donny got appendicitis. He asked me to be his medical advocate. "There's something else," the surgeon told my uncle before the operation. "We saw a mass on your abdominal CT. I hate to scare you…but it looks like colon can...

Sep 19th, 2022 - Ashbrook M, et al. Management of complicated appendicitis during pregnancy in the US.

Sep 19th, 2022 - The study was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Appendicitis induced by immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) presents in a manner similar to that of conventional appendicitis, and compli...

Sep 8th, 2022 - I'm reading a fascinating book right now — Stolen Focus by Johann Hari — about our societal attentional crisis. My own need to read this book is underlined by the fact that I have now had to renew it three times because of my own difficulty focusi...

Aug 3rd, 2022 - For decades, surgical appendectomy has been the standard treatment for acute appendicitis. But nonoperative management with antibiotics is an option for some patients. For acute, uncomplicated appendicitis, a new meta-analysis reports, nonoperativ...