From 2004 to 2017, there was an increase in cancer of the appendix in acute appendicitis patients, especially among patients younger than 50 years old. Given the emerging practice toward managing ...

Patients who underwent HSCT from 2006 to 2016 in the Hematological Department of Nanfang Hospital at Southern Medical University were reviewed. The inclusion criteria are as follows: (1) upon ...

Appendectomy is still the first-line treatment for most patients with acute appendicitis, but treatment with up-front antibiotics rather than having patients proceed to laparoscopic surgery can be ...

Appendicitis is inflammation of the vermiform appendix (or just the appendix, for short), a little structure within the lower gastrointestinal tract. In appendicitis, the appendix swells, causing a ...

Outpatient antibiotic management of selected patients with appendicitis is safe, allowing many patients to avoid surgery and hospitalization, and should be considered as part of shared decision-making ...

More than half of people who receive antibiotics to treat appendicitis do not see their disease come back 10 years after the initial illness, a new study shows. The data come from one of the first ...

Data on long-term outcomes with antibiotics for appendicitis show that most patients will not experience a recurrence, reported researchers who followed up on patients from the first two randomized ...

Researchers have developed a new pediatric appendicitis risk calculator (pARC) to aid in the diagnosis of appendicitis. Researchers from Children's Minnesota (Children's) and HealthPartners Institute ...

A majority of patients would choose surgical treatment for uncomplicated acute appendicitis, rather than treatment with only antibiotics, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery. For the study, ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The most common emergency surgical procedure in the U.S. is an appendectomy - removal of the appendix. But now there's mounting evidence that some patients can avoid or delay ...

Doctors are more likely to miss appendicitis in patients who are Black, research shows. This phenomenon, first described in children, occurs in adults as well, according to a study published last ...