ALLMedicine™ Appendectomy Center

Jan 21st, 2022 - Present theory is that uncomplicated and complicated appendicitis are different entities. Recent studies suggest it is safe to delay surgery in patients with uncomplicated appendicitis. We hypothesize that patients with complicated appendicitis ar...

Jan 18th, 2022 - Tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA) is generally seen in sexually active women. It is rarely reported in virginal adolescent girls. A 12-year-old virginal girl was referred us for repeated fever and right lower abdominal pain. She had undergone an appendec...

Jan 14th, 2022 - Non-operative management (NOM) of uncomplicated acute appendicitis (AA) has been introduced as an alternative to appendectomy. This umbrella review aimed to provide an overview of the efficacy and safety of NOM of uncomplicated AA in the published...

Jan 13th, 2022 - Appendicoliths, Antibiotic Treatment Failure, and Appendectomy-Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?|2022|Feldman LS,Lee L,|

Jan 13th, 2022 - Use of antibiotics for the treatment of appendicitis is safe and has been found to be noninferior to appendectomy based on self-reported health status at 30 days. Identifying patient characteristics associated with a greater likelihood of appendec...

Apr 3rd, 2019 - An MRI is recommended for an ovarian mass that is indeterminate on ultrasound. The ROMA score (combining CA125 and HE4) can also be calculated (grade A). In presumed early-stage ovarian or tubal cancers, the following procedures should be performe...

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...

Dec 4th, 2009 - IPEG guidelines for appendectomy.|2009| ,|standards,

Sep 30th, 2009 - SAGES guideline for laparoscopic appendectomy.|2009|Korndorffer JR,Fellinger E,Reed W,|economics,standards,surgery,economics,standards,

Nov 10th, 2021 - Death from opioid overdose is now considered a national emergency. Prescribing of narcotics by physicians, particularly in the perioperative period, remains a significant contributor to opioid addiction. There is a critical need to identify post-o...

Nov 10th, 2021 - Acute appendicitis is a major cause of acute abdomen. Although its diagnosis is clinical, it is often supported by complementary diagnostic tests. Sometimes, delay in diagnosis can lead to worsening of the clinical picture, resulting in a complica...

Oct 13th, 2021 - 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...

Oct 4th, 2021 - Purpose: To determine if a bilateral laparoscopically guided rectus sheath block improves pain control over conventional local anesthetic infiltration around port site incisions following laparoscopic appendectomy. Hypothesis: Bilateral rectus she...

Sep 23rd, 2021 - The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19) was first discovered in Wuhan in China at the end of 2019 then at the beginning of 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) announced COVID-19 as a global pandemic [1]. Because the virus is highly i...

Jan 19th, 2022 - A new analysis of data from a major US trial comparing antibiotics to surgery for appendicitis yielded more information that can help patients weigh options for treatment. The presence of mineralized stool, known as appendicolith, was associated w...

Jan 18th, 2022 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Abdominopelvic surgery for non-obstetric reasons is often necessary during pregnancy and the risk of harm to the fetus varies by gestational age, indication and acuity, according to a large meta-analysis. The analysis i...

Jan 12th, 2022 - Radiographic findings, especially appendicolith, were associated with increased odds of needing an appendectomy within 30 days of starting antibiotics to treat acute appendicitis, a secondary analysis of the CODA trial found. Among 735 patients wi...

Dec 14th, 2021 - Appendectomy is still the first-line treatment for most patients with acute appendicitis, but treatment with up-front antibiotics rather than having patients proceed to laparoscopic surgery can be done in appropriately selected patients with uncom...

Oct 25th, 2021 - Acute appendicitis treated with antibiotics often ends up being treated with appendectomy, longer-term follow-up of the CODA Collaborative trial showed. In the antibiotics group, 40% had surgery to remove their appendix by 1 year, which rose to 46...