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Acute Appendicitis in the Public and Private Sectors in Cape Town, South Africa
Compared to the Western world, the incidence of appendicitis is relatively low in South Africa, but with higher complication and rupture rates. Although there have been numerous studies published on appendicitis in South Africa, the literature is notably missing outcome data in the private sector. …
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Biomarker Profiling of Appendicitis in Pediatric Patients by Metabolomics, Metallomics and Inflammatory Mediator Profiling
Appendicitis is the most common non-traumatic surgical presentation in Pediatric Emergency Departments. The diagnosis of appendicitis is quite challenging in children due to multifactorial barriers resulting in delayed or missed diagnosis, which may either lead to severe complications requiring …
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Is Unenhanced Abdominal CT Scan Necessary for the diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis in Children?
ABSTRACT ⅰ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⅱ LISTS OF TABLES ⅲ Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION 1 Ⅱ. MATERIALS AND METHODS 2 Ⅲ. RESULTS 3 Ⅳ. DISCUSSION 5 Ⅴ. CONCLUSION 8 REFERENCES 8 국문요약 11
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Misdiagnosis of Appendicitis in Women in a Resource Limited Setting: Lessons from South Africa
Introduction: Acute appendicitis (AA) is a common surgical emergency. In low and middleincome countries, the diagnosis is often made clinically due to the lack of access to specialised imaging. Misdiagnosis in females is common, given the potential broad differential diagnosis. The rate of …
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Misdiagnosis of Appendicitis in Women in a Resource Limited Setting: Lessons from South Africa
Introduction: Acute appendicitis (AA) is a common surgical emergency. In low and middleincome countries, the diagnosis is often made clinically due to the lack of access to specialised imaging. Misdiagnosis in females is common, given the potential broad differential diagnosis. The rate of …
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Is Appendicitis a Ticking Time Bomb? Time to Treatment and Risk of Perforation after Patients Reach the Hospital
BACKGROUND In the traditional model of appendicitis, time is the major driver of disease progression: luminal obstruction leads inexorably to perforation without timely intervention. This perceived association has guided clinical behavior related to timing of operation. Our objective was to …
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The early diagnosis of acute appendicular disease: with notes of six illustrative cases: submitted for the Pattison Prize in Clinical Surgery, 1927
… in the Right Iliac Fossa is not The symptom of appendicitis. • 2. The most important clinical features of appendicitis are Paraumbilical Pain followed by nausea or vomiting. • 3. Occasionally, with a history of a previous attack pain may begin in the right iliac fossa. • 4. The only way to …
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A study to determine the outcomes of laparoscopic appendicectomies at the university teaching hospital, Zambia.
… appendicectomy in the management of acute appendicitis. Acute appendicitis has been managed solely by open appendicectomy at UTH. This was the first study that looked at the management of acute appendicitis by laparoscopy here at UTH. The aim of this study was to determine the outcomes of …
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Impact of the Acute Surgical Unit on a Local and Global Scale
… Lyell McEwin Health Service. For patients with appendicitis or cholecystitis, these compared cohorts ≤2.5 years pre/post ASU introduction. Primary outcomes were length of stay, time to theatre, after-hours operating rates, rates of cholecystectomy on index admission and rates of appropriate …
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A study comparing outcomes of appendectomy between HIV-infected and HIV-negative patients
… HIV status on surgical outcomes in our setting. Appendicitis is the most common gastrointestinal emergency, and its surgical outcomes in areas of high HIV prevalence are poorly described in the literature. Thus, the aim of this study is to describe and compare the outcomes of appendectomy between …
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Big data and machine learning tools to understand mastitis epidemiology and other topics
… of children presenting with symptoms of appendicitis are compared by combining emergency department admissions data with results from a multiplex cytokine assay and 6) dietary risk factors for immunological flare-ups in patients with Crohn’s disease are explored by combining …
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Small bowel obstruction and toxicity of a new model of adhesion prevention
… open versus laparoscopic surgery for suspected appendicitis (II). In the experimental studies the aims were to establish the lowest anti adhesive dose of α-polylysine (PL) in combination with polyglutamate (PG) and determine the toxic dose of α-PL (III), to investigate the possible anti adhesive …
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Stark's conjectures
… this dissertation suffering from a bad case of appendicitis.
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Regional ileitis: a clinical and experimental study
… are not distinguishable from those of acute appendicitis. In the chronic stage there are certain characteristic symptoms and signs. 6. The differential diagnosis of regional ileitis has been considered, and the clinical and radiological aids to diagnosis indicated. 7. Treatment should be …
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Η επίδραση της εγκυμοσύνης στην ανάπτυξη λιθίασης των χοληφόρων: Προοπτική μελέτη
… biliary tract are the most common after acute appendicitis. Despite this, there is a relative paucity of objective information concerning the incidence, aetiology and surgical management of biliary tract disease during pregnancy and its effect, if any, on the fetus. During the last 2 years 330 …
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Local anesthetic wound infusion versus standard analgesia in paediatric post-operative pain control : a randomised control trial
… Lanz incision laparotomy for complicated appendicitis. Patients aged between 3 months and 12 years undergoing laparotomy or open appendectomy were randomly selected for local anesthetic wound infusion (CLAWI) versus EPI or CLAWI versus (SAPA) respectively. Exclusion criteria were …
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Sonographische Diagnostik der Appendizitis - Vergleich der fundamentalen Bildgebung und Harmonic Imaging bei histologisch gesicherter Appendizitis
Einleitung: Harmonic Imaging ist eine neue Ultraschallmodalität mit hoher Orts- und Kontrastauflösung. Mehrere Vergleichsstudien bei Erwachsenen haben gezeigt, dass Harmonic Imaging der konventionellen (=fundamentalen) Ultraschallbildgebung bei verschiedenen Fragestellungen überlegen ist. Ziel …
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Apendicectomías negativas y apendicitis perforada cuando se usa tomografía computarizada versus abordaje clínico
Introducción: La apendicitis aguda es la urgencia quirúrgica más frecuente en el mundo. Su diagnóstico ha sido eminentemente clínico con ayuda de algunos paraclínicos, sin embargo, en los últimos 20 años se han ido introduciendo ayudas como la tomografía computarizada (TC) con evidencia en contra y …
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