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MINILAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY [PDF]

ABCD. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva (São Paulo), 2016
Background: Minilaparoscopy is considered one of the minimally invasive options available for acute appendicitis treatment, although not always employed in less complexity public health services. Aim: Report surgical outcomes of minilaparoscopy use in acute appendicitis treatment. Method : The study included 21 patients undergoing minilaparoscopic
COLETTA, Lúcio Américo Della, GIL, Bruno Ziade, ZANATTO, Renato Morato   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low‐resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester, N. Starr, T. Negussie, D. Schaps, M. Adem, S. Alemu, D. Amenu, N. Gebeyehu, T. Habteyohannes, F. Jiru, A. Tesfaye, E. Wayessa, R. Chen, A. Trickey, S. Bitew, A. Bekele, T. G. Weiser   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Outcomes of Laparoscopic Versus Open Appendectomy for Acute Appendicitis in a Resource-limited Setting

The Annals of African Surgery, 2021
Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of the acute abdomen; thus, appendectomy is part of most daily emergency surgical duties. It is conducted through either open or laparoscopic approach.
Mohanned Omer Abass, Yassir Altahir Abdullah, Elssayed Osman Elssayed, Abdelrahman Babekir Mhammed, Mohamed Saeed Alfaki   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

TWO-PORT LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY IS MORE BENEFECIAL THAN OPEN APPENDECTOMY IN EARLY ACUTE APPENDICITIS

Folia Medica Indonesiana, 2017
Open appendectomy has already commonly been performed to treat acute appendicitis, but the relatively more painful and longer incision scar becomes a cosmetical problem. Two port laparoscopic appendectomy can be performed safely, less painful and leaving
Vicky S Budipramana
doaj   +1 more source

Appendectomy

Southern Medical Journal, 1997
The authors present an accurate and comprehensive snapshot of appendicitis and the practice of appendectomy in the 1990s.Appendectomies were performed on 4950 patients in 147 Department of Defense hospitals worldwide over a 12-month period ending January 31, 1993.The median age was 23 years (range, 6 months to 82 years) with 64% males and 36% females ...
D A, Hale, M, Molloy, R H, Pearl, D C, Schutt, D P, Jaques   +4 more
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Appendectomy Is Associated With Alteration of Human Gut Bacterial and Fungal Communities

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Recent research has revealed the importance of the appendix in regulating the intestinal microbiota and mucosal immunity. However, the changes that occur in human gut microbial communities after appendectomy have never been analyzed.
Shuntian Cai, Shuntian Cai, Yanyun Fan, Yanyun Fan, Bangzhou Zhang, Bangzhou Zhang, Jinzhou Lin, Xiaoning Yang, Yunpeng Liu, Jingjing Liu, Jingjing Liu, Jianlin Ren, Jianlin Ren, Hongzhi Xu, Hongzhi Xu   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laparoscopic Appendectomy does not Increase the Rate of Negative Appendectomy along with a Lower Rate of Perforated Appendicitis – Results in 1899 Patients at Zagreb UHC

Acta Clinica Croatica, 2018
Laparoscopic appendectomy is the method of choice of many professional societies owing to its many advantages. The question arises whether surgeons urge more easily to laparoscopic exploration due to its less invasiveness, faster recovery and adequate ...
Goran Augustin, Zrinka Čižmešija, Jurica Žedelj, Igor Petrović, Vanja Ivković, Anko Antabak, Davor Mijatović, Mate Škegro   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Appendicitis as an early manifestation of subsequent malignancy: an asian population study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Cancer risk after appendectomy in patients with appendicitis remains unclear. This study examined the role of appendicitis as an early manifestation harbingering the distant malignancy.From the insurance claims data of Taiwan, we identified a cohort of ...
Shih-Chi Wu, William Tzu-Liang Chen, Chih-Hsin Muo, Fung-Chang Sung   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk of irritable bowel syndrome in patients who underwent appendectomy: A nationwide population-based cohort study

EClinicalMedicine, 2020
Background: Appendectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures; however, the possible long-term consequences have not been fully explored. The appendix has been associated with microflora of the gut and immune functions.
Chi-Ya Yang, Meng-Che Wu, Mei-Chen Lin, James Cheng-Chung Wei   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring geographic variation in acute appendectomy in Ireland: results from a national registry study

BMJ Open, 2019
Objective To explore geographic variations in Irish laparoscopic and open appendectomy procedures.Design Analysis based on 2014–2017 administrative hospital data from public hospitals.Setting Counties of Ireland.Participants Irish residents with hospital
Jan Sørensen, Ola Ahmed, Ken Mealy
doaj   +1 more source