Background. Acute appendicitis (AA) associated with acute phase reaction is the most prevalent disease which requires emergency surgery. Its delayed diagnosis and unnecessarily performed appendectomies lead to numerous complications. In our study, we aimed to detect the role of WBC and CRP in the exclusion of acute and complicated appendicitis and diagnostic accuracy in pediatric age group. Met...

PURPOSE This study was aimed to evaluate the effect of time of surgery for acute appendicitis on surgical outcomes to optimize the timing of appendectomies. METHODS Medical records of patients who underwent an appendectomy were reviewed to obtain data on time of symptom onset, time of hospital presentation, and start times of surgery. Surgical findings were used to define appendicitis as eith...

PURPOSE Laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) for acute appendicitis has several advantages over open appendectomy (OA). In cases of complicated appendicitis, LA is converted to OA at a constant rate, though converting appendectomy (CA) has several disadvantages. We retrospectively determined preoperative risk factors for failure of LA and subsequent conversion to OA. METHODS Consecutive cases of pr...

PURPOSE Recently, single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has been studied for its being less invasive surgery and having cosmetic improvement. We investigated the application of SILS for an appendectomy (SILS-A) in cases of complicated appendicitis and compare it with a conventional laparoscopic appendectomy (C-LA). METHODS This study involved a total of 40 patients who underwent C-LA or...

of the technical difficulties [7]. Attention is now focusing on how far it will develop and on how much its area of application will widen. Considering the refinement of indications for SILS, this study may be valuable because the authors focused on the feasibility and the benefits of SILS for “complicated” appendicitis. They reported better cosmetic result and similar postoperative complicatio...

Introduction The incidence of acute appendicitis in pregnancy is 1:2000 (1:700 ÷ 3000); 60% suffer from acute appendicitis in the first half of pregnancy. When perforated appendicitis complicated by diffuse peritonitis, maternal mortality rate reaches 16.7%, with perinatal loss in the 19,4-50%. Explainable limitation application of instrumental diagnostic methods at different stages of pregnanc...

I have read the article by Kırkıl et al. (1) with great interest. They reported that uncomplicated appendicitis can be managed by medical treatment with a rate of 10.2% recurrence. In their study they failed to achieve success only 2 patients (1.2%) in first 48 hour. Although the first treatment response to complicated acute appendicitis is nonoperative intervention, there is a growing body of ...

Aim: In this study, we sought to investigate possible biomarkers markers that can preoperatively distinguish complicated and non-complicated acute appendicitis.
 Material Method: Patients who underwent appendectomy between February December 2019 were screened retrospectively. with pathology findings other than appendicitis excluded. a confirmed diagnosis of categorized as for analysis soci...

Background: The preoperative diagnosis of acute appendic i t i s i s of ten inaccurate i n pregnant women, and complicated appendicitis is associated with a high rate of fetal loss. Objective: Our purpose was to elicit a better understanding of the presentation of acute appendicitis in pregnancy and to clarify diagnostic dilemmas reported in the literature. Study design: We retrospectively revi...

SUMMARY Identification of complicated appendicitis (CA) is critical to the management of appendicitis. However, previous studies have not investigated indicators of CA among patients with HIV or whether it is safe to use conservative treatment for appendicitis in these patients. Among 322 patients with appendicitis, we identified 14 who had HIV. Six of them were operated and 8 were treated with...