Appendicitis. Illustration of a human appendix, showing it red and inflamed in appendicitis. The appendix is a narrow finger-shaped tube that branches off the first part of the large intestine (caecum ...

Antibiotic treatment may be a feasible alternative to surgery for uncomplicated acute appendicitis, according to findings from a 5-year observational follow-up study that compared appendectomy with ...

For decades, surgical appendectomy has been the standard treatment for acute appendicitis. But nonoperative management with antibiotics is an option for some patients. For acute, uncomplicated ...

Acute appendicitis treated with antibiotics often ends up being treated with appendectomy, longer-term follow-up of the CODA Collaborative trial showed. In the antibiotics group, 40% had surgery to ...

For patients with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, the noninferiority of oral antibiotics alone compared with a combination of intravenous and oral antibiotics could not be demonstrated in a ...

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A new study has found that surgery, rather than antibiotics-only, should remain as the mainstay of treatment for acute uncomplicated appendicitis. An RCSI study conducted in Beaumont Hospital in ...

ACUTE appendicitis in children displays certain features in its pathology, clinical course, diagnosis and treatment, which vary considerably from those of the disease in adults. The development of ...

Pregnant women who underwent immediate surgery to treat a ruptured or abscessed appendix had lower risk of infectious complications compared with those whose complicated appendicitis was managed ...