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A clinical prediction model for complicated appendicitis in children younger than five years of age

BMC Pediatrics, 2020
Background No reliably specific method for complicated appendicitis has been identified in children younger than five years of age. This study aimed to analyze the independent factors for complicated appendicitis in children younger than five years of ...
Wei Feng, Xu-Feng Zhao, Miao-Miao Li, Hua-Lei Cui   +3 more
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Complicated appendicitis increases the hospital length of stay

Surgery Open Science, 2022
Background: There are insufficient data from Saudi Arabia regarding appendectomy outcomes and hospital length of stay. Further, there is a need to compare the length of stay of Saudi patients and the literature.
Abdulrahman Muaod Alotaibi, MD, Mohammed Alfawaz, MD, Lina Felemban, MD, Leena Moshref, MD, Rana Moshref, MD   +4 more
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Role of Hyperbilirubinaemia as a Predictor of Complicated Appendicitis in Paediatric Population

African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2022
Background: Acute appendicitis is a common surgical emergency amongst the paediatric population. Available diagnostic tools are focussed to make a diagnosis of acute appendicitis.
Dinesh Prasad Koirala, Amit Kumar Gupta, Geha Raj Dahal, Bibek Man Shrestha, Suraj Shrestha, Subita Neupane, Rameshwar Prasad Pokharel   +6 more
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Evaluation of urine analysis in adults with simple and complicated appendicitis

Ankara Medical Journal, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Acute appendicitis is one of the common abdominal emergencies. We aimed in this study to evaluate whether routine urinalysis may use in discriminating between simple appendicitis and complicated appendicitis in the emergency department ...
Handan Özen Olcay, Emine Emektar, Meral Tandoğan, Tuba Şafak, Hakan Bulus, Yunsur Cevik   +5 more
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Evaluation of Serum Bilirubin as a Predictive Marker for Simple and Complicated Appendicitis in Sulaimani Emergency Teaching Hospital

Kurdistan Journal of Applied Research, 2018
Diagnosis of acute appendicitis can be challenging in some cases as the differentials can be exhaustive. Previous studies have demonstrated that hyperbilirubinemia is a more specific marker for appendicitis than white blood count (WBC) and C-reactive ...
Seerwan Hama Shareef, Dara Ahmed Mohammed, Goran Ameer Ahmed   +2 more
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Clinical significance of appendicoliths in conservative treatment of acute complicated appendicitis patients with peri-appendiceal abscess: a single-center retrospective study. [PDF]

Ann Med Surg (Lond)
Min L, Lu J, He H.
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Usefulness of several factors and clinical scoring models in preoperative diagnosis of complicated appendicitis.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundThe preoperative distinction between uncomplicated and complicated appendicitis is important to determine the appropriate treatments, such as antibiotics, surgery, or interval appendectomy.
Kenji Fujiwara, Atsushi Abe, Toshihiro Masatsugu, Tatsuya Hirano, Kiyohisa Hiraka, Masayuki Sada   +5 more
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The Diagnostic Differentiation Challenge in Acute Appendicitis: How to Distinguish between Uncomplicated and Complicated Appendicitis in Adults

Diagnostics, 2022
(1) Background: How to best define, diagnose and differentiate uncomplicated from complicated acute appendicitis remains debated. Hence, the aim of this review was to present an overview of the current knowledge and emerging field of acute appendicitis ...
Benedicte Skjold-Ødegaard, Kjetil Søreide   +1 more
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Therapeutic strategy for acute appendicitis based on laparoscopic surgery

BMC Surgery, 2023
Purpose The treatment strategies for acute appendicitis differ depending on the facility, and various studies have investigated the usefulness of conservative treatment with antibiotics, laparoscopic surgery, and interval appendectomy (IA).
Masahiro Shiihara, Yasuhiro Sudo, Norimasa Matsushita, Takeshi Kubota, Yasuhiro Hibi, Harushi Osugi, Tatsuo Inoue   +6 more
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Evidence-based optimisation of empirical antibiotic regimens in paediatric complicated appendicitis: a retrospective study of 94 patients

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2022
BACKGROUND: Acute appendicitis is the most frequent surgical emergency in the paediatric population. Complicated appendicitis accounts for 30% of cases and is inextricably linked to postoperative infectious complications.
Filippo Gerber, Jean-Marc Joseph , Pierre-Alex Crisinel , Véronique Andrey   +3 more
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