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Sarcopenia ‘made simple’ and outcomes from emergency laparotomy

ANZ Journal of Surgery, Volume 92, Issue 12, Page 3198-3203, December 2022., 2022
CT‐assessed ratio of L3 vertebral body cross‐sectional area to total psoas muscle cross‐sectional area (L3:PM) is a simple yet significant predictor of 30‐, 90‐ and 365‐day mortality in emergency laparotomy patients. This study is the first to describe the association in an Australian population.
Yan Joyce Ming, Peter Howley, Merran Holmes, Jon Gani, Peter Pockney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Quality of Life and Patient Satisfaction at 7-Year Follow-up of Antibiotic Therapy vs Appendectomy for Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA Surgery, 2020
Importance Long-term results support antibiotics for uncomplicated acute appendicitis as an alternative to appendectomy. To our knowledge, treatment-related long-term patient satisfaction and quality of life (QOL) are not known.
S. Sippola, J. Haijanen, Lauri Viinikainen, J. Grönroos, H. Paajanen, T. Rautio, P. Nordström, M. Aarnio, T. Rantanen, S. Hurme, J. Mecklin, J. Sand, A. Jartti, P. Salminen   +13 more
semanticscholar   +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

Distinct changes in the colonic microbiome associated with acute diverticulitis

Colorectal Disease, Volume 24, Issue 12, Page 1591-1601, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Aim The pathogenesis of acute diverticulitis (AD) remains incompletely understood, despite it being one of the most common gastrointestinal conditions worldwide. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the colonic microbiome in the pathogenesis of AD.
O’Grady MJ, Greg A. Turner, Sulit A, Frank A. Frizelle, Purcell R   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How well do DRGs for appendectomy explain variations in resource use? : An analysis of patient-level data from 10 European countries [PDF]

, 2012
Appendectomy is a common and relatively simple procedure to remove an inflamed appendix, but the rate of appendectomy varies widely across Europe. This paper investigates factors that explain differences in resource use for appendectomy.
Andrew Street, Anne Mason, Josselin Thuilliez, null null, Padraic Ward, Thomas Renaud, Zeynep Or   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Understanding the variability of pharmaco‐epidemiological studies assessing the risk of appendicitis with mRNA COVID‐19 vaccines

, 2023
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 87-90, January 2023.
Clement Jambon‐Barbara, Claire Bernardeau, Jean‐Luc Cracowski, Charles Khouri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Laparoscopic Appendectomy Superior to Open Appendectomy? [PDF]

The Medical Journal of Cairo University, 2020
Abstract Background: The most common emergency for surgery in the population is acute appendicitis. Though laparoscopic appendectomy is widely performed today, the advantages of laparoscopic versus open appendectomy remain under contro-versy. Aim of Study: To determine whether Laparoscopic Ap-pendectomy (LA) is better than thetraditional Open Appen ...
Mohamed M. Ahmed Sakran Amer H.E. Barrawy, Hamed A. Abdel Hameed Elbadwy   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Left sided appendicitis

, 2022
ANZ Journal of Surgery, Volume 92, Issue 12, Page 3343-3344, December 2022.
Serena Peng, Magdalena Biggar
wiley   +1 more source

Appendectomy to Remember [PDF]

Journal of Travel Medicine, 2009
A 29‐year‐old Somali women presented with acute right lower quadrant abdominal pain, nausea, and fever. She had migrated as a refugee from Kenya to Minnesota 14 months before presentation. On physical examination, she had periumbilical and right lower quadrant tenderness with signs of peritoneal irritation such as rebound tenderness.
Sadia Jama, Sadia Jama, Mohamed D. Abd Alla, William M. Stauffer, J. Carlos Manivel   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources