PPT-Appendicitis

Definition The appendix is a small fingerlike appendage attached to the cecum just below the ileocecal valve It empties into the colon inefficiently and its lumen is small it is . When simple becomes not so simple. Jeffrey C. Pence, . MD, FACS, FAAP. Associate Professor . of . Surgery. Department of Surgery. Dayton Children’s Medical Center. Elizabeth H. Ey, MD. Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics. Presented by :. Sara . Shokri. . Moghaddam. Anatomy & Function of appendix. The three . taeniae. coli converge at the junction of the . cecum. with the appendix.. The tip of appendix can be found in a . LAPAROSCOPIC VERSUS OPEN APPENDECTOMY. IN SEARCH OF EVIDENCE…. Clif Wierink. ABBREVIATIONS. CA. . Complicated. Appendicitis. LA. . . Laparoscopic. . Appendectomy. OA. . Open . Appendectomy. IAA. presented . by:rezaeisadrabadi. M.. In the name of god. introduction. After endoscopy . Semm. introduced Laparoscopic Appendectomy(LA) in 1983. The use of it increased by in the management of acute appendicitis remains controversial. Hinkle . ch.. 46 & 48. Gastroesophageal. Reflux Disease (GERD) (1253). Backflow of gastric contents into esophagus. . Incidence increases with age. Affects infants as well but is referred to as GER. to the . cecum just below the . ileo-cecal. . valve. .. It empties into . the colon inefficiently and its lumen is . small; . it is . prone to . becoming obstructed and is vulnerable to . infection (appendicitis).. Firas. . Majeed. . . . Acute . appendicitis is the most common cause of an ‘acute abdomen’ in young . adults. . Appendicitis is sufficiently common that . appendicectomy. (termed ‘appendectomy’ in North America) is the most frequently performed urgent abdominal operation and is often the first major procedure performed by a surgeon in training. CT Appearances. Christopher M. Chin, MD. Kheng. L. Lim, MD. Both authors have disclosed no relevant relationships. . Address correspondence to . C.M.C., Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania Hospital, University of Pennsylvania Health System, 800 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19107 (e-mail: . Volume 203, Issue 4. , April 2012, Pages 503–507. S . . Fallahzadeh. A 60-year literature review of stump appendicitis: the need for a critical view. Appendectomy remains one of the most commonly performed procedures by the general surgeon. More than 250,000 appendectomies are performed each year in America for acute appendicitis, and the lifetime risk of developing appendicitis is 8.6% for men and 6.7% for women.. . LEARNING OBJECTIVES . Describe the appendix and appendicitis along with its pathophysiology. . Identify the clinical manifestations of appendicitis.. Discuss assessment and diagnostic findings of appendicitis.. Perforation in acute appendicitis: Evaluation of hyperbilirubinemia and elevated C reactive protein as a predictive factor . IAIM, 2017; 4 (3 ): 18 - 23. Page 18 Original Research Article Perforatio Adıyaman University Faculty of Medicine, Training and Research Hospital, Department of Radiology, Adıyaman-TurkeyABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the diagnosti Series Acute appendicitis: modern understanding of pathogenesis, Aneel Bhangu, Kjetil Søreide, Salomone Di Saverio, Jeanette Hansson Assarsson, Frederick Thurston DrakeAcute appendicitis is one of th 32 Rather than Delay in the Surgical Intervention: Retrospective Database Analysis of 2573 Saudi Bader Hamza Shirah 1 , Hamza Assad Shirah 2 , Wael Awad Alhaidari 3 1 College of Medicine, King Abdul