Data on long-term outcomes with antibiotics for appendicitis show that most patients will not experience a recurrence, reported researchers who followed up on patients from the first two randomized ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Initial antibiotic treatment was successful in 88% to 95% of patients. At 25 years, 60% treated with antibiotics ...

Doctors are more likely to miss appendicitis in patients who are Black, research shows. This phenomenon, first described in children, occurs in adults as well, according to a study published last ...

Outpatient antibiotic management of selected patients with appendicitis is safe, allowing many patients to avoid surgery and hospitalization, and should be considered as part of shared decision-making ...

Patients treated by female doctors have a lower mortality rate when compared to patients treated by their male counterparts, a new study suggests. Researchers found this was especially true for female ...

Appendectomy may be a useful addition to medical therapy for preventing relapse of ulcerative colitis among patients in remission. At 1 year, 36% of patients in the appendectomy group had a relapse ...

Acute appendicitis remains one of the most common non-obstetric emergencies encountered during pregnancy. Its diagnosis is complicated by anatomical shifts and physiologic alterations that may obscure ...