ALLMedicine™ Appendicitis Center

Jan 29th, 2023 - Recent evidence confirms that the treatment of acute appendicitis is not necessarily surgical, and selected patients with uncomplicated appendicitis can benefit from a non-operative management. Unfortunately, no cost-effective test has been proven...

Jan 29th, 2023 - The aim of the present study was to identify risk factors associated with postoperative morbidity and major morbidity, with a prolonged length of hospital stay and with the need of readmission in patients undergoing appendectomy due to acute appen...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Acute pancreatitis in emergency surgery ranks third in frequency of its manifestation, second only to acute appendicitis and cholecystitis. The incidence of acute pancreatitis is growing from year to year and is more than 38 patients per 10,000 po...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Acute pancreatitis in emergency surgery takes the 3rd place in terms of the frequency of its manifestation, second only to acute appendicitis and cholecystitis. The incidence of acute pancreatitis is growing from year to year and is more than 38 p...

Jan 26th, 2023 - There is controversy about the necessity of nighttime appendectomy. The aim of this study was to determine whether timing of appendectomy performance plays a role on postoperative complications. A retrospective single-center comparative study was ...

Nov 28th, 2022 - This document focuses on imaging in the adult and pregnant populations with right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain, including patients with fever and leukocytosis. Appendicitis remains the most common surgical pathology responsible for RLQ abdo...

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...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Acute pancreatitis in emergency surgery ranks third in frequency of its manifestation, second only to acute appendicitis and cholecystitis. The incidence of acute pancreatitis is growing from year to year and is more than 38 patients per 10,000 po...

Jan 26th, 2023 - Acute pancreatitis in emergency surgery takes the 3rd place in terms of the frequency of its manifestation, second only to acute appendicitis and cholecystitis. The incidence of acute pancreatitis is growing from year to year and is more than 38 p...

Jan 18th, 2023 - 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...

Jan 11th, 2023 - Surgical site infection rates for contaminated or dirty laparotomy wounds can be as high as 45%. Surgical management of dirty and contaminated wounds has been controversial in the literature and between surgeons. Primary closure (PC) of these woun...

Jan 11th, 2023 - Appendicitis is one of the most common surgical diagnoses in the pediatric population and the most common surgical emergency in children. In complex appendicitis, the sequelae have progressed beyond the confines of the organ, and have led to purul...

Jan 20th, 2023 - Two days of postoperative intravenous antibiotics for complex appendicitis was non-inferior to 5 days in terms of complications and mortality, according to results of an open-label randomized trial. In 1,005 patients, the vast majority of whom und...

Dec 19th, 2022 - Note that some links may require subscriptions. Six days of ivermectin at a dose of 600 μg/kg did not reduce recovery time for patients with early, mild to moderate COVID-19, new results from the ACTIV-6 study found. (medRxiv) You think you had a ...

Dec 1st, 2022 - Patients with lean non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) had a higher risk for liver-related mortality, a meta-analysis found. (Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology) For patients with lateral abdominal hernias, robotic surgical repair was ...

Oct 26th, 2022 - Patients who were more confident that antibiotics could treat appendicitis appeared less likely to undergo surgery for this condition than those who expressed more reservations about this approach, according to a further analysis of data from a la...

Oct 6th, 2022 - Is norovirus infection triggering Crohn's disease in people with certain genetic mutations? (NBC News) The phase III REVERSE trial of obeticholic acid (Ocaliva) for compensated cirrhosis caused by non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) failed to mee...