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Acute Appendicitis Occurring in Dengue Fever: A Case Report and Review of the Literature [PDF]

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Dengue fever is a disease caused by the dengue virus and it is present in many tropical countries, including Nigeria. Cases of acute abdomen have been reported in dengue fever and they include acute cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, acute appendicitis ...
Ayobamidele Rasaq Kolapo, Boluwatife Oluwafayoyimika Johnson   +1 more
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Diagnosis and classification of pediatric acute appendicitis by artificial intelligence methods: An investigator-independent approach [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2019
Acute appendicitis is one of the major causes for emergency surgery in childhood and adolescence. Appendectomy is still the therapy of choice, but conservative strategies are increasingly being studied for uncomplicated inflammation. Diagnosis of acute
Kallarackal, Jim, Kiss, Natalie, Minderjahn, Maximiliane I., Reismann, Josephine, Reismann, Marc, Romualdi, Alessandro, Schad, Martina   +6 more
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Nonoperative vs Operative Management of Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

JAMA Surgery, 2022
Importance Appendectomy remains the standard of care for uncomplicated acute appendicitis despite several randomized clinical trials pointing to the safety and efficacy of nonoperative management of this disease.
Rodrigo Moisés de Almeida Leite, D. Seo, Barbara Gomez-Eslava, Sigma Hossain, Arnaud Lesegretain, Alexandre Venâncio de Souza, C. Bay, B. Zilberstein, E. Marchi, R. B. Machado, L. Barchi, R. Ricciardi   +11 more
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Estimation of serum bilirubin level as a diagnostic laboratory marker of acute appendicitis and its role in prediction of appendicular perforation

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of surgical abdomen. A delay in diagnosis and subsequent delay in intervention may lead to appendicular perforation which leads to peritonitis and further complications including death.
Manoranjan Ghosh , Monali Patole Mukherjee , Vikram Chaturvedi , Dipankar Mukherjee   +3 more
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Non-operative management of acute appendicitis in children

Pediatric surgery international (Print), 2022
Appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies in children and adults. Appendectomy as the standard care has been challenged in the recent years with growing evidence about non-operative treatment as a potential primary treatment in patients
Soma Jumah, T. Wester
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Acute appendicitis in people living with HIV: What does the emergency surgeon needs to know?

SAGE Open Medicine, 2021
Acute appendicitis is among the commonest surgical emergencies seen in an acute setting. Individuals living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and/or the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) have an increased risk of encountering ...
Arshad Mahmood, Syed H Raza, Elamin Elshaikh, Dushyant Mital, Mohamed H Ahmed   +4 more
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Effect of Oral Moxifloxacin vs Intravenous Ertapenem Plus Oral Levofloxacin for Treatment of Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis: The APPAC II Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2021
Importance Antibiotics are an effective and safe alternative to appendectomy for managing uncomplicated acute appendicitis, but the optimal antibiotic regimen is not known.
S. Sippola, J. Haijanen, J. Grönroos, T. Rautio, P. Nordström, T. Rantanen, T. Pinta, I. Ilves, A. Mattila, J. Rintala, E. Löyttyniemi, S. Hurme, Ville Tammilehto, H. Marttila, S. Meriläinen, J. Laukkarinen, Eeva-Liisa Sävelä, H. Savolainen, T. Sippola, M. Aarnio, H. Paajanen, P. Salminen   +21 more
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Appendiceal microbiome in uncomplicated and complicated acute appendicitis: A prospective cohort study.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundUncomplicated and complicated acute appendicitis seem to be two different forms of this common abdominal emergency. The contribution of appendiceal microbiota to appendicitis pathogenesis has been suggested, but differences between ...
Sanja Vanhatalo, Eveliina Munukka, Teemu Kallonen, Suvi Sippola, Juha Grönroos, Jussi Haijanen, Antti J Hakanen, Paulina Salminen   +7 more
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The microbiome in adult acute appendicitis

Gut Microbiome, 2022
Acute appendicitis is a common acute surgical emergency; however, the pathogenesis of adult appendicitis remains poorly understood. The microbiome is increasingly thought to play a key role in inflammatory disease of the bowel and similarly, may play a ...
Mei Sze Lee, Arielle Sulit, Frank Frizelle, Rachel Purcell   +3 more
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Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines

World Journal of Emergency Surgery, 2020
Background and aims Acute appendicitis (AA) is among the most common causes of acute abdominal pain. Diagnosis of AA is still challenging and some controversies on its management are still present among different settings and practice patterns worldwide.
S. di Saverio, M. Podda, B. de Simone, M. Ceresoli, G. Augustin, A. Gori, M. Boermeester, M. Sartelli, F. Coccolini, A. Tarasconi, N. de’ Angelis, D. Weber, M. Tolonen, A. Birindelli, W. Biffl, E. Moore, M. Kelly, K. Søreide, J. Kashuk, R. T. ten Broek, C. Gomes, M. Sugrue, R. Davies, D. Damaskos, A. Leppäniemi, A. Kirkpatrick, A. Peitzman, G. Fraga, R. Maier, R. Coimbra, M. Chiarugi, G. Sganga, A. Pisanu, G. D. de’ Angelis, E. Tan, H. van Goor, F. Pata, I. Di Carlo, O. Chiara, A. Litvin, F. Campanile, B. Sakakushev, G. Tomadze, Z. Demetrashvili, R. Latifi, F. Abu-Zidan, O. Romeo, H. Segovia-Lohse, G. Baiocchi, D. Costa, S. Rizoli, Z. Balogh, C. Bendinelli, T. Scalea, R. Ivatury, G. Velmahos, R. Andersson, Y. Kluger, L. Ansaloni, F. Catena   +59 more
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