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Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency and becomes serious when it perforates. Perforation is more frequent in the elderly patients. The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors of perforation in elderly patients who presented with acute appendicitis.
- Acute appendicitis in late adulthood: incidence, presentation, and ...
Results: Patients aged 50 years and older with acute...
- Acute appendicitis in late adulthood: incidence, presentation, and ...
15 kwi 2020 · Acute appendicitis (AA) is among the most common causes of lower abdominal pain leading patients to attend the emergency department and the most common diagnosis made in young patients admitted to the hospital with an acute abdomen. The incidence of AA has been declining steadily since the late 1940s.
20 cze 2016 · Appendicitis is a common surgical condition in children and young adults, with a lifetime risk of 7%. 1 With increasing life expectancy, its incidence in elderly adults is rising. 1, 2 Five percent to 10% of cases occur in people aged 65 and older, 3 which is often associated with delay in treatment and subsequently higher rates of ...
10 mar 2020 · Elderly patients with acute appendicitis showed higher mortality, higher perforation rate, lower diagnostic accuracy, longer delay from symptoms onset and admission, higher postoperative complication rate and higher risk of colonic and appendiceal cancer.
3 paź 2022 · Studies reported higher mortality and perforation rates, marked increase in delay from symptom onset to hospital admission, significant complication rates, as well as excessive malignancy outcomes on histopathological examinations in patients older than 50 years of age with acute appendicitis.
Results: Patients aged 50 years and older with acute abdominal pain had a significantly higher incidence of surgery. Fourteen percent had acute appendicitis (27% in younger patients), with an increased complication rate (20% vs. 8%) and mortality (3% vs. 0.2%).
Classic symptoms of appendicitis include vague periumbilical pain, anorexia/nausea/intermittent vomiting, migration of pain to the right lower quadrant, and low-grade fever. The diagnosis of acute appendicitis is made in approximately 90% of patients presenting with these symptoms.
