BACKGROUND The Alvarado score is utilized to determine the likelihood of appendicitis based on clinical signs, symptoms, and laboratory results. The goal of this study was to determine whether Alvarado scores can be used to aid in the accurate diagnosis of appendicitis. METHODS Alvarado score evaluations were performed on 300 patients that were referred to or presented to the emergency room w...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the integration of ultrasound (US) findings with Alvarado score in diagnosing or excluding acute appendicitis. METHODS Data were analyzed in 122 pediatric patients with suspected appendicitis who had undergone US. The US findings were classified into four groups, and the patients were classified into three groups according to Alvarado score....

o bjectives: to evaluate the accuracy of sonography in diagnosing acute appendicitis in patients with alvarado score 4–7. m e thods: this is a retrospective cross-sectional study being performed in namazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences during a one year period from 9/2007 to 9/2008. we evaluated all patients with alvarado score 4-7 and divided them in two groups...

Introduction: Appendicitis is a common surgical emergency and diagnosis is usually straight forward. However, negative appendicectomy is still a problem. Several appendicitis predictive scores have been developed. To prospectively compare the RIPASA score with the Alvarado score and Pediatric Appendicitis score (PAS) for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in pediatric patients presenting with ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of Alvarado score for the prediction of acute appendicitis. STUDY DESIGN Analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY This study was carried out in the Department of Surgery, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, during the period from January 15, 2009 to July 15, 2010. METHODOLOGY The study included all adult patients of ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of focused appendicitis ultrasound combined with Alvarado score to accurately identify appendicitis in children in whom it is suspected, thereby reducing unnecessary CT examinations and associated radiation exposure. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated the focused appendicitis ultrasound, CT, clinical, and la...

Acute Appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies in clinical practice with estimated life time prevalence approximately 1 in 7. [1] The incidence is 1.5 to 1.9 per 1000 and is approximately 1.4 times greater in men then in women. [2] Aim: This study was undertaken to compare Alvarado and RIPASA score to diagnose acute appendicitis ,to know the efficacy of individual score for e...

INTRODUCTION The accuracy of the Alvarado score in diagnosing acute appendicitis in an Asian population has been disappointingly low. We prospectively compared the RIPASA score with the Alvarado score for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. METHODS 200 consecutive patients who presented to the Accident and Emergency Department with right iliac fossa pain were recruited in the study. Both the...

OBJECTIVE We tried to evaluate the accuracy of the heel drop test in patients with suspected appendicitis and tried to develop a new clinical score, which incorporates the heel drop test and other parameters, for the diagnosis of this condition. METHODS We performed a prospective observational study on adult patients with suspected appendicitis at two academic urban emergency departments betw...

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 ...