IT IS my impression, derived from over twenty years of experience in surgery, that acute appendicitis rarely occurs during menstruation. The records of three hospitals in the Boston area were studied ...

Writing in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, Debbie-Ann Shirley and colleagues describe four cases of children (aged 11 to 17 years) presenting with acute appendicitis symptoms who were ...

Appendicitis is inflammation of the vermiform appendix (or just the appendix, for short), a little structure within the lower gastrointestinal tract. In appendicitis, the appendix swells, causing a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers have reported a link between increased incidence of appendicitis and warmer weather, independent of ...

TUESDAY, Sept. 25, 2018 -- If you're suffering from acute appendicitis, you might be successfully treated with antibiotics and never need an operation to remove your appendix, Finnish researchers ...

The incidence of appendicitis in pregnancy varies. Appendicitis rates have been quoted from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 300 with an average rate of 1 in 550 pregnancies. [5,6,7,8,9] Mourad et al. [9] reviewed ...

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10, 2018 -- Even though appendicitis often resolves with the use of antibiotics, the overwhelming majority of Americans would opt for surgery instead, a new survey finds. Only about ...

Antibiotics are an effective, safe treatment for uncomplicated appendicitis cases and can be considered a routine alternative to surgery, a Duke researcher finds. According to Dr. Theodore Pappas, a ...