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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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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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Appendicolith appendicitis is clinically complicated acute appendicitis – is it histopathologically different from uncomplicated acute appendicitis [PDF]

, 2022
Purpose: Acute appendicitis may present as uncomplicated and complicated and these disease forms differ both epidemiologically and clinically. Complicated acute appendicitis has traditionally been defined as an appendicitis complicated by perforation or ...
Vaarala S, Ohtonen P, Mallinen J, Salminen P, Gronroos J, Lietzen E, Makinen M, Rautio T   +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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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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Synchronous gallbladder perforation and appendicitis in a pediatric patient

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2022
Background: Acute appendicitis and acute cholecystitis are among the most common diagnoses operated by general surgeons. However, synchronous appendicitis and cholecystitis have rarely been reported and most cases have been described as acalculous ...
José Miguel Aceves-Ayala, Pablo Francisco Rojas-Solís, Ashley Yael Sotelo-Casas, Yazmín Areli Sánchez-Reynoso, Carlos Alfredo Bautista-López   +4 more
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Predictive value of immature granulocyte in the diagnosis of acute complicated appendicitis.

PLoS ONE, 2022
IntroductionThe goal in appendicitis is early diagnosis and early treatment. Complications develop as treatment is delayed. Therefore, there is a need for fast, low-cost markers that can be diagnosed earlier.
Gulsum Feyza Turkes, Abdulkadir Unsal, Hakan Bulus   +2 more
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Acute appendicitis presenting with MIS-C secondary to COVID-19

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2022
Acute Appendicitis (AA) is among the most common causes of abdominal pain in children. Several physical exam findings, scoring systems, and imaging studies, such as ultrasonography and computed tomography, exist to assist clinicians in diagnosing acute ...
Amanda Sturgill, Rachael Cannon, Shivani Patel, Andrea Horbey, Raymond Chua, Dilsa Souffrant, Stephanie Davenport   +6 more
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IS PEDIATRIC APPENDICITIS SCORE SUFFICIENT TO MAKE THE DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE APPENDICITIS AMONG CHILDREN?

The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016
Background:Children with acute abdominal pain represent most of the admitted cases to the pediatric surgical department, one third of these cases are acute appendicitis.
Ali F Abdullah, Firas M Katoof, Basim Sh Ahmed   +2 more
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Laparoscopic appendectomy for complicated acute appendicitis does not result in increased surgical complications

Asian Journal of Surgery, 2012
Background/Objectives: Septic postoperative complications are debated in patients with complicated acute appendicitis treated with laparoscopic appendectomy (LA).
Yueh-Ming Lin, Ching-Hua Hsieh, Chia-I Cheng, Boon-Lee Tan, Hang-Tsung Liu   +4 more
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