ALLMedicine™ Appendicitis Center

May 24th, 2022 - Acute appendicitis (AA) is the most common surgical emergency, with a relatively stable yearly incidence. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, as New York City (NYC) emerged as the US epicenter, hospitals saw a marked reduction in patie...

May 21st, 2022 - This study was designed to evaluate the feasibility of laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation with a Boari flap for long-segment ureteric avulsion or ureteric strictures of the middle and lower ureters. By observing its curative effect and prognosis...

May 19th, 2022 - Radiologic imaging can accurately diagnose acute appendicitis, but little is known about its discriminatory capacity between complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis. This study aims to investigate the accuracy of imaging in discriminating compl...

May 19th, 2022 - Acute appendicitis is a common surgical emergency with an estimated lifetime prevalence of 8.6% for males and 6.7% for females. Despite the frequency of presentation, considerable variation in clinical practice exists. Our study aimed to explore t...

May 18th, 2022 - Pediatric appendicitis accounts for a notable proportion of health care use and cost in the United States. To identify opportunities for cost savings during pediatric laparoscopic appendectomy, this study assessed whether surgeons' use of costlier...

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...

May 18th, 2022 - With the development of surgical techniques, laparoscopic appendectomy has become a standard therapeutic procedure for acute appendicitis in many hospitals in recent years, which is considered as an effective and safe treatment option in children....

May 17th, 2022 - Appendicitis is the most common cause of abdominal pain requiring emergent surgical intervention in children and approximately one third of patients present with perforation. Perforated appendicitis has been demonstrated to have a significant impa...

May 5th, 2022 - The purpose of this study is through multi-center prospective RCT research, to discuss the application of ERAS in children with acute appendicitis, including its preoperative rehydration, postoperative analgesia, preoperative and postoperative ant...

May 4th, 2022 - The central aim of this study is to determine whether duration of antibiotic treatment at discharge demonstrates significant differences in primary and secondary clinical outcomes. Specifically, this research aims to determine whether the readmiss...

Apr 7th, 2022 - Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdomen requiring acute surgery. The prevalence of the retrocaecal position of the appendix varies significantly between studies from 14 to 36%. Appendectomy of a retrocecal appendix is generall...

May 11th, 2022 - Appendiceal mucinous neoplasms (AMNs) are rare tumors of the appendix that can be asymptomatic or present with acute right lower quadrant (RLQ) pain mimicking appendicitis. Due to their potential to cause either no symptoms or nonspecific symptoms.

May 5th, 2022 - Black children with type 1 diabetes (T1D) were at greater risk for recurring diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) than their peers, regardless of whether they lived in better or worse neighborhoods, according to a cross-sectional study. For children with D...

May 5th, 2022 - Children who have greater acute appendicitis pain may be less likely to improve if they're treated with antibiotics alone, according to a secondary analysis of a nonrandomized clinical trial. Dr Rebecca Rentea "While approximately 35% of families ...

Apr 18th, 2022 - Surgical closure of perianal fistulas in Crohn's disease (CD), when combined with short-term tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, improved radiologic healing and other outcomes compared to medication alone, the PISA II trial showed. In an inten...

Apr 18th, 2022 - Pregnant women who underwent immediate surgery to treat a ruptured or abscessed appendix had lower risk of infectious complications compared with those whose complicated appendicitis was managed without surgery, according to new research. Most cas...