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 ...

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 ...

After 10 years, just over half the people in a trial of antibiotics for appendicitis have not needed an appendectomy.

According to the World Health Organization, in the year 2015, more than one crore cases of appendicitis were reported, out of which 50,100 of these succumbed to the disease. Appendicitis is a ...

Appendicitis is the fifth most common reason for hospitalization among children in the U.S. Compared to surgery, using antibiotics alone to treat children with appendicitis is a cost-saving strategy.

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 ...

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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 ...

Almost half of children who require surgery for complicated appendicitis can safely complete their recovery at home, according to a new study. The research, led by Murdoch Children's Research ...

Almost half of children who require surgery for complicated appendicitis can safely complete their recovery at home, according to a new study. Almost half of children who require surgery for ...