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A Rare Cause of Acute Appendicitis: Enterobius vermicularis [PDF]

open access: yesTürkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi, 2021
Acute appendicitis is the most common intra-abdominal pathology that requires emergency surgery in general surgery clinics. The aetiology of acute appendicitis includes both infectious and non-infectious causes.
Mehmet Patmano   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Acute Appendicitis [PDF]

open access: yesThe Moldovan Medical Journal, 2018
Background: It has been more than 130 years since Reginald Fitz described for the first time the pathomorphological changes of the acute appendicitis and after the first appendectomy that was performed by H. Hancock, in the case of acute appendicitis, but the problem remains to be actual till now.
Bazeliuc, Iurii   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Ultrasonography in acute appendicitis [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of College of Medical Sciences-Nepal, 2017
Background & Objectives: This study was undertaken to establish the Ultrasonographic (USG) findings in acute appendicitis and to establish the accuracy of USG in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis.Materials & Methods: One hundred patients who ...
V Natraj Prasad, Pramod Kumar Chhetri
doaj   +2 more sources

The role of CT in decision for acute appendicitis treatment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
PURPOSEAcute appendicitis is the most common cause of the acute abdomen requiring surgery. Although standard treatment has been surgery, it has been seen in recent years that treatment is possible with antibiotics and non-operative observation.
Baha Tolga Demirbas   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Acute appendicitis in people living with HIV: What does the emergency surgeon needs to know?

open access: yesSAGE 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of serum bilirubin level as a diagnostic laboratory marker of acute appendicitis and its role in prediction of appendicular perforation

open access: yesAsian 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Appendiceal microbiome in uncomplicated and complicated acute appendicitis: A prospective cohort study.

open access: yesPLoS 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   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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

open access: yes, 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   +7 more
core   +3 more sources

The microbiome in adult acute appendicitis

open access: yesGut 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The decrease of non-complicated acute appendicitis and the negative appendectomy rate during pandemic

open access: yes, 2021
BACKGROUND: During pandemic, admissions for surgical emergencies dropped down dramatically. Also acute appendicitis decreased. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the change in volume and clinical presentation of patients with acute ...
Coccolini Federico   +10 more
core   +1 more source

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