Treatment for acute uncomplicated appendicitis may involve appendectomy or nonoperative care (pain control, antibiotics, and careful follow-up). The advantages and disadvantages of each should be d ...

For acute uncomplicated appendicitis, is nonoperative management with antibiotics as safe as surgery? When nonoperative management is compared with appendectomy, treatment success or likelihood of ...

Acute appendicitis is the sudden and severe inflammation of the appendix. It can cause pain in the abdomen, and this pain may occur quickly and worsen within hours. The appendix is a narrow tube ...

The cumulative incidence of recurrence of acute appendicitis was 27.3% at 1 year, 34% at 2 years, 35.2% at 3 years, 37.1% at 4 years, and 39.1% at 5 years.

Jimin of South Korean pop group BTS at t Rockefeller Plaza, New York City on February 21, 2020. The singer and dancer has undergone surgery for acute appendicitis. Dia Dipasupil/GETTY ...

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The likelihood of recurrence of uncomplicated acute appendicitis within 5 years was 39.1% among patients initially treated with antibiotics, according to findings recently published in JAMA ...

For more than 100 years, appendicitis was considered an emergency that required immediate surgery to remove the appendix (an appendectomy). Today a course of antibiotics offers a safe alternative ...

The average period of delay from onset of symptoms to hospitalization for simple acute appendicitis was 1.4 days, but for ruptured appendix with local or generalized peritonitis, it was 3.1 days.

Smart Phones Allow Quick Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis By Dan Bowman Dec 1, 2009 10:54am Providers ...