• On the basis of class B evidence and consensus, acute appendicitis in children can often be diagnosed clinically with only selective use of imaging. (13)(14)(15)(16) • On the basis of class B evidence and consensus, ultrasonography is the test of choice when acute appendicitis is suspected but is unclear based on history, physical examination, and laboratory results. (17)(18)(19) • On the bas...

OBJECTIVE The incidence of acute appendicitis after liver transplantation (LT) is extremely low, reported to be 0.09% to 0.49%, but the efficacy of the Alvarado score in this patient group has not been studied. This study was an investigation of the clinical management of patients who developed acute appendicitis after LT and the usefulness of the Alvarado score in the diagnosis. METHODS The ...

Children find a rectal examination unpleasant and over a third experienced severe discomfort in this study. This is acceptable only if essential information affecting management is obtained. In this series, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in over 90% of cases was made from the clinical history and abdominal examination. In two cases the rectal tenderness indicated the correct diagnosis. Rec...

Background: Acute Appendicitis is one of the most common presentation on surgical floor and Appendectomy is one of the most common emergency operation being done worldwide. Although emergency appendicectomy is consider as standard treatment for acute appendicitis but acute appendicitis can also be managed by non operative means in carefully selected/closely observed pts. Methods: Patients prese...

Acute appendicitis is a common surgical presentation usually managed with laparoscopic appendicectomy. There has been long-standing debate as to whether conservative management of acute could provide superior alternative management. COVID-19 infection emerged in December 2019 and was labelled pandemic by the World Health Organisation March 2020. Re-structuring result forced rapid changes guidel...

Abdominal pain with dengue fever can be a diagnostic challenge. Typically, pain is localised to the epigastric region or associated with hepatomegaly. Patients can also present with acute abdomen. We report a case of a girl with dengue fever and right iliac fossa pain. The diagnosis of acute appendicitis was made only after four days of admission. An appendicular mass and a perforated appendix ...

To determine the diagnostic values for computed tomography (CT) in acute appendicitis in different subgroups of patients presenting with right lower abdominal pain at emergency room (ER). This was a retrospective study on 226 patients (105 men and 121 women) with mean age of 44.0 ± 16.7 years (age range, 16-88 years) who presented with right lower abdominal pain at ER from January 2008 to Decem...

Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common nonobstetric surgical problem in pregnancy. Common signs and symptoms of appendicitis are less reliable during pregnancy due to physiological changes; thus, the role of imaging becomes prominent. Thus, in the present study, we aimed at assessing the accuracy of sonography in diagnosing acute appendicitis during pregnancy. Methods: In this prospe...

o b jective: to evaluate the accuracy of surgeons’ intraoperative diagnosis in open appendectomy and compare it with the histopathology examination results afterwards. m ethods: this was a cross-sectional retrospective study accomplished in namazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences, in a one-year period from 2007 to 2008. medical charts of all the patients who were ...

Acute abdomen in children is a condition that causes great distress to parents, and appendicitis its most common cause, being more frequent at school age. This pathology the cause of numerous visits public private hospitals around world, brings several complications. It important health team aware possibility children, due high incidence difficulty establishing diagnosis, because symptoms are n...