Uncomplicated acute appendicitis in children may be managed successfully using nonsurgical techniques, according to a study published online April 12 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed an overall postoperative surgical site infection rate of 2.8%, ranging from 0% to 8.6% across ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . About one-third of children treated with antibiotics for appendicitis experienced treatment failure. Children in ...

Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary outcome ...

Nonoperative management of uncomplicated appendicitis in children is feasible and well tolerated, with a small proportion of patients experiencing recurrent symptoms that require appendectomy within a ...

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 ...

2025 FEB 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Gastroenterology Daily News-- Investigators discuss new findings in Digestive System Diseases and Conditions - Appendicitis. According ...

Data from two standard diagnostic tests commonly obtained in children evaluated for abdominal pain--when combined--can improve the ability of emergency department physicians and pediatric surgeons to ...

Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department. A small proportion of them usually have appendicitis, and timely detection is essential. To do so, ...

The High Court has refused to find that an out of hours GP service was negligent in failing to diagnose appendicitis in an 11 ...