Preoperative antibiotics do not lower perforation rates in uncomplicated acute appendicitis but do lower postop infection rates.

Acute appendicitis is the most common non-obstetric emergency requiring surgery during pregnancy. The symptoms of appendicitis may be mistaken for routine discomfort from pregnancy.

Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis. Uncomplicated appendicitis refers to acute inflammation of the appendix that has not yet caused complications like rupture, abscess, or peritonitis.

There is, however, a natural course in acute appendicitis. All exams are not always performed at the same time as blood samples are taken or CT scan.

For acute uncomplicated appendicitis, is nonoperative management with antibiotics as safe as surgery? When nonoperative management is compared with appendectomy, treatment success or likelihood of ...

IT IS my impression, derived from over twenty years of experience in surgery, that acute appendicitis rarely occurs during menstruation. The records of three hospitals in the Boston area were studi ...

A hospital has apologised to a girl whose appendicitis was misdiagnosed at its emergency department in July, 2022, before her ...