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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A study published in The Lancet examined treating acute, non-perforated appendicitis in children with antibiotics instead of surgery. It found antibiotics less ...

Failure of antibiotics was defined as patients having a subsequent appendicectomy, and failure in the appendicectomy group was defined as patients having a normal appendix identified on pathology. A ...

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BACKGROUND: The appropriate use of preoperative antibiotics in patients undergoing appendectomy for acute appendicitis has been shown to decrease the rate of surgical site infections (SSIs).

In a groundbreaking study published in the medical journal The Lancet, researchers have explored the possibility of treating acute, non-perforated appendicitis in children with antibiotics instead of ...

Current research has not found an association between rheumatoid arthritis and appendicitis, but some studies found a link between other autoimmune diseases and appendicitis.

In a new study published in the journal The Lancet, researchers have explored the possibility of treating acute, non-perforated appendicitis in children with antibiotics instead of surgery.