ALLMedicine™ Appendicitis Center

Sep 16th, 2021 - Appendicitis is a common condition that is often confirmed with imaging. Ultrasound (US) is recommended as the first radiologic test in the work-up of appendicitis in children. Increased body mass index (BMI) has been implicated as a limiting fact...

Sep 15th, 2021 - An 84-year-old woman presented acutely with dizziness, fatigue and a total of 800 mL of fresh per rectum (PR) bleeding. The significant history of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair 5 years ago included multiple episodes of endovascular leak around ...

Sep 15th, 2021 - Artificial Intelligence Compared to Alvarado Scoring System Alone or Combined with Ultrasound Criteria in the Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis.|2021|Ghareeb WM,Emile SH,Elshobaky A,|

Sep 11th, 2021 - Children with abdominal pain are frequently seen in emergency departments. Physicians and parents worry about appendicitis; physicians are also concerned about intussusception and bowel obstruction in patients with previous surgical procedures. So...

Sep 9th, 2021 - To determine if, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1) the proportion of complicated appendicitis changed, and 2) if imaging strategies for appendicitis in children changed. Retrospective cross-sectional study using administrative dat...

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...

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...

Nov 6th, 2018 - Appendicitis remains the most common surgical pathology responsible for right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain presenting to emergency departments in the United States, where the incidence continues to increase. Appropriate imaging in the diagn...

Sep 2nd, 2021 - Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of abdominal pain requiring surgery in the emergency department. The highest incidence of acute appendicitis is in the 2nd and 3rd decades of life, but it can be seen at any age. There is a 7% chance tha...

Feb 2nd, 2021 - Background Acute appendicitis is an extremely common surgical emergency. Traditionally, appendicitis has been managed surgically. Recently, however, variability in management of acute appendicitis has emerged, with some clinicians practising conse...

Apr 3rd, 2020 - A large retrospective study compared wound irrigation with antiseptic solution, with antimicrobial agent, and with normal saline in patients undergoing open appendectomy and concluded an evident superiority of antibiotic wound irrigation over both...

May 26th, 2011 - The study will be a prospective randomized clinical trial. Totally 150 patients who are diagnosed to have acute appendicitis will be randomly divided into 3 equal groups (n=50 for each group). First group will have traditional open appendectomy pr...

Mar 23rd, 2021 - The pantheon of husband-wife teams in science includes Marie and Pierre Curie, Gerty and Carl Cori, even Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, the founders of BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer on a Covid-19 vaccine. To that list we hesitatingly add ...

Mar 9th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Robert D. Glatter, MD: Hi and welcome. I'm Dr Robert Glatter, medical advisor for Medscape Emergency Medicine. The well-established standard treatment for acute appendicitis is surgical appendectomy. I ...

Jan 29th, 2021 - (Reuters Health) - Children undergoing cancer treatment who develop neutropenic appendicitis may have lower complication rates and fewer disruptions to chemotherapy regimens with upfront surgery than with observation, a new study suggests. Researc...

Oct 13th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The rates of perforated appendicitis in children in the New York City metropolitan region increased after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers report. "What I found most interesting was that even though w...

Oct 7th, 2020 - Patients given antibiotics for appendicitis fared no worse in quality of life, at least in the short term, than did patients whose appendix was removed, according to a large, randomized, nonblinded, noninferiority study published online October 5 ...