After 10 years, just over half the people in a trial of antibiotics for appendicitis have not needed an appendectomy.

Acute appendicitis is the inflammation of the appendix, a small organ attached to the large intestine, usually due to an infection, or an obstruction between the two organs. Stomach infections may ...

Appendicitis. Illustration of a human appendix, showing it red and inflamed in appendicitis. The appendix is a narrow finger-shaped tube that branches off the first part of the large intestine (caecum ...

IT IS my impression, derived from over twenty years of experience in surgery, that acute appendicitis rarely occurs during menstruation. The records of three hospitals in the Boston area were studied ...

It can be argued that in US Emergency Departments, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis has shifted from clinical impression to radiographic confirmation, even for patients for whom the diagnosis is ...

The findings, published in BJS Open by M. A. Zarog from the Department of Surgery and colleagues, suggest that circulating fibrocyte percentage (CFP) could help improve diagnostic accuracy in a ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have recently presented a case series pointing to a potential association between infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ...

Abdominal complications occur frequently in immunocompromised hematologic patients under chemotherapy, especially at high doses. It has been estimated that 30% of infectious complications arise from ...

Stump appendicitis is a rare complication that occurs when the residual appendix becomes inflamed after an appendectomy. It is estimated to occur in between 0.002% and 0.15% of cases, although it may ...

Appendicitis is not an inherited condition, but genetics may play a role. However, the cause of appendicitis is often unclear. Appendicitis refers to inflammation of the appendix. An infection may ...

ACUTE appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix, a small pouch-like, blind-ending tubular structure located in the lower right side of the abdomen where the small intestine meets the large ...