Medical Xpress

Surgery or antibiotics for appendicitis? Here's what patients chose

(HealthDay)—Even though appendicitis often resolves with the use of antibiotics, the overwhelming majority of Americans would opt for surgery instead, a new survey finds. Only about one in every 10 ...
Medscape

Appendicitis: Up-Front Antibiotics OK in Select Patients

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 ...
Nature

Acute appendicitis in leukaemia patients undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation during the neutropaenic phase: a case series from a single BMT centre in China

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 ...
Science Daily

Most patients with appendicitis can be treated with antibiotics

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 ...
Yahoo

Appendicitis: Causes, symptoms and treatment

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 ...
Medical Xpress

Younger patients with appendicitis are more likely to have cancer of the appendix

Although appendectomy (surgical removal of the appendix) is still the most effective treatment for acute appendicitis, nonoperative management is increasingly common as recent studies have shown that ...
Science Daily

Technique developed to improve appendicitis care for pediatric patients

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 ...
Medscape

Appendicitis More Often Missed in Patients Who Are Black

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 ...
STAT

Pills for appendicitis? Surgery often not needed, study says

CHICAGO — When emergency tests showed the telltale right-sided pain in Heather VanDusen’s abdomen was appendicitis, she figured she’d be quickly wheeled into surgery. But doctors offered her the ...
UPI

Calculator to predict pediatric appendicitis may improve patient care

March 13 (UPI) --Researchers at a children's hospital in Minnesota have developed a pediatric appendicitis risk calculator to aid in the diagnosis of the disease. Researchers at Children's Minnesota, ...
UPI

7 in 10 appendicitis patients treated with antibiotics avoid surgery

Oct. 5 (UPI) --Antibiotics and surgery are both good options for treating appendicitis, according to a study published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine that found 7 in 10 patients treated ...