Search results for "Appendicitis"
Patient beliefs associated with successful antibiotic treatment of appendicitis
A secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial found lower risk for appendectomy and higher likelihood of 30-day resolution of signs and symptoms among those who believed that antibiotics could be completely successful versus those who thought they would be unsuccessful or were unsure.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/28/2.htm
28 Oct 2022
Low-dose CT for appendicitis appears noninferior to standard-dose CT
Patients with suspected appendicitis at 20 South Korean teaching hospitals were randomly assigned to receive low-dose CT (2 mSv) or standard-dose CT (3 to 8 mSv).
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2017/09/22/3.htm
22 Sep 2017
In uncomplicated acute appendicitis, 61% of patients initially treated with antibiotics had not had appendectomy at 5 years
While delay of surgery was not associated with major complications, potential candidates for nonsurgical management of uncomplicated acute appendicitis should be chosen carefully, an ACP Journal Club commentary said.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/25/7.htm
25 Jan 2019
New meta-analysis quantifies risks of colonoscopy
The risk of perforation during colonoscopy is 5.8 per 10,000, while bleeding occurs in 2.4 per 1,000 colonoscopies, according to a committee report from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2019/10/25/3.htm
25 Oct 2019