Machine learning enabled researchers to identify a genetic biomarker for predicting perforated appendicitis in children presenting with suspected appendicitis, according to a single-center prospective ...

Does abdominal irrigation decrease the risk for abscess formation after perforated appendicitis? To answer this question, the authors conducted a randomized trial (irrigation vs no irrigation) in 220 ...

Background: Children with perforated appendicitis often have a prolonged hospital course complicated by surgical site or intra-abdominal infections. Treatment with multiple intravenous (IV) ...

For children with a perforated appendix, early appendectomy appears to reduce the time away from normal activities and has fewer adverse events as compared to another common option, the interval ...

Children with perforated appendicitis had similar outcomes whether treated with antipseudomonal antibiotics or ceftriaxone plus metronidazole (CTX/MTZ), found authors of a retrospective cohort study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Preoperative antibiotic treatment did not reduce the risk for appendix perforation in patients with ...

Giving antibiotics to people with simple appendicitis is a safe and effective alternative to surgery, a new review finds. Surgery has been the standard approach to treating an inflamed appendix since ...

A new study describes the role of hospital type in race-based treatment disparities among pediatric appendicitis patients. When researchers from UCLA Medical Center investigated the link between ...

Using antibiotics as the primary treatment for mild appendicitis does not increase the risk for complications at least in the first year. But other considerations must also be taken into account, say ...