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Laparoscopic Versus Open Appendectomy for Complicated Appendicitis in Pediatric age group [PDF]

Al-Azhar International Medical Journal, 2000
Background: In the pediatric age range, the most prevalent abdominal ailment needing surgery is acute appendicitis. The lifetime risk of acquiring appendicitis is 1 in 14 (7%). Aim and objectives: To assess the intraoperative and postoperative Results of
Mahmoud Ibrahim, Soliman Soliman, Youssef Ahmed   +2 more
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The Appendix Orchestrates T-Cell Mediated Immunosurveillance in Colitis-Associated CancerSummary

Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2023
Background & Aims: Although appendectomy may reduce colorectal inflammation in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), this surgical procedure has been suggested to be associated with an increased risk of colitis-associated cancer (CAC).
Maxime K. Collard, Julien Tourneur-Marsille, Mathieu Uzzan, Miguel Albuquerque, Maryline Roy, Anne Dumay, Jean-Noël Freund, Jean-Pierre Hugot, Nathalie Guedj, Xavier Treton, Yves Panis, Eric Ogier-Denis   +11 more
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Early versus interval appendectomy in children with complicated appendicitis: effects on hospital stay and occurrence of severe complications. [PDF]

Front Pediatr
PurposeAcute appendicitis is a common pediatric emergency, yet optimal management of complicated cases remains debated. This study compares outcomes of early vs. interval appendectomy in children with perforated appendicitis.MethodsA retrospective review
Schmidt Y, Cramer F, Muensterer O, Wendling-Keim DS.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 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

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
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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
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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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Nighttime Appendectomy is Safe and has Similar Outcomes as Daytime Appendectomy: A Study of 1198 Appendectomies [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, 2020
Introduction: Although it is controversial whether appendectomy can be safely delayed, it is often unnecessary to postpone operation as a shorter delay may increase patient comfort, enables quicker recovery, and decreases costs.
T. Mönttinen, H. Kangaspunta, J. Laukkarinen, M. Ukkonen   +3 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
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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
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