BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of oxidative stress including total oxidant status, total antioxidant status, and paraoxonase activity in patients with a diagnosis of acute appendicitis. METHODS Seventy-three patients who underwent surgery with a preoperative diagnosis of acute appendicitis (Group I) were included into the study. The control group (Group II) con...

Background: Diagnosis of acute appendicitis is usually made on the basis clinical judgment and experience surgeon. It may sometimes become a challenge due to variability in presentation. not unusual for surgical residents & consultants miss diagnosis. Aim: To evaluate effectiveness Alvarado score making an accurate diagnosis assessing its sensitivity at tertiary care hospital, Lahore, Pakis...

TBE-CiTE Journal Meeting on February 27 , 2012, with the participation of the fol lowing services: Trauma Program, Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Canada; Discipline of Trauma Surgery at UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil; Discipline of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, Unive...

intra-abdominal hernias are rare conditions usually secondary to congenital defects, with pericecal hernias accounting for a minority of them. they can be difficult to diagnose due to non-specific presentations but may lead to strangulation and thus require early management. we herein report a rare case of pericecal hernia with gangrenous appendicitis in an 88 year-old lady presenting with feat...

Objective: Acute Appendicitis encounters as the frequent problem in surgical pediatric patients leading to Appendectomy, being one of most common procedures performed Emergency. During COVID-19 pandemic, trends management acute appendicitis have changed. Conservative with antibiotics is proposed an alternative conventional appendectomy. So, this study conducted compare presentation and outcome ...

Introduction: Despite many advances in diagnosis, diagnosing appendicitis remains difficult. Various diagnostic scoring systems have been developed an attempt to improve the accuracy of acute appendicitis. The study aimed determine Modified Alvarado and Eskelinen score correlate histopathological findings with severity Materials Methods: A prospective was conducted TUTH including 84 patients a ...

Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal urgent/emergent conditions worldwide and can occur at every age. It can be simple, in many cases treated conservatively, or complicated which require a surgical intervention. Sometimes is present peritonitis or abscesses which can deal to the creation of laparostomy (in order to oversee bowel inflammation). Diagnosis can be diff...

background and objective: in the present study, the diagnostic agreement between surgical and pathological findings of appendicitis in children was tested. the aim was to assess the association between patient body mass index (bmi) and this diagnostic agreement. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 121 consecutive children aged less than 15 years suspected to acute appendiciti...

background:   understanding the etiology of appendicitis is important for developing effective treatments the rela­tionship between parasitic appendicitis and various socio-cultural factors were examined, particu­larly with respect to the incidence of literacy. the aim of the article was to research the relations between para­sitic appendicitis and literacy ratio in population. methods : cases ...

background:   acute appendicitis with appendicial endometriosis is a very infrequently encountered condition during pregnancy. decidualization is the hypertrophy of endometrial stromal cells by the effect of progesterone. similarly, in pregnancy, ectopic stromal endometrial cells in endometriosis can also be transformed by the same mechanism and ectopic decidua (deciduosis) may occur case: here...