ArticleSurgery today2015
The preoperative serum C-reactive protein level is a useful predictor of surgical site infections in patients undergoing appendectomy.
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- Role of intraoperative antibiotics wound irrigation in reducing surgical site infection following open appendectomy: a randomized controlled trial.BMC surgery · 2025Trial
- Risk factors for prolonged hospitalization and delayed treatment completion after laparoscopic appendectomy in patients with uncomplicated acute appendicitis.Annals of coloproctology · 2023Article
- Preoperative risk factors of incisional surgical site infection in severe or intractable ulcerative colitis.Surgery today · 2022Article
- Prophylactic abdominal drainage following appendectomy for complicated appendicitis: A meta-analysis.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Review
- Predictive value of CRP/albumin ratio in major abdominal surgery.Irish journal of medical science · 2020Article
- Risk Factors for Postoperative Infectious Complications in Elderly Patients with Gastric Cancer.Cancer management and research · 2020Article
- Diagnostic value of procalcitonin, C-reactive protein and lactate dehydrogenase in paediatric malignant solid tumour concurrent with infection and tumour progression.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Maximizing Interpretability and Cost-Effectiveness of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Predictive Models Using Feature-Specific Regularized Logistic Regression on Preoperative Temporal Data.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2019Article
- Postoperative C-reactive protein/albumin ratio as a novel predictor for short-term complications following gastrectomy of gastric cancer.World journal of surgical oncology · 2017Article
- Pediatric appendicitis: state of the art review.Pediatric surgery international · 2017Review
- C-reactive protein can be an early predictor of postoperative complications after gastrectomy for gastric cancer.Surgical endoscopy · 2017Article
- Retrospective Multicenter Study on Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infections after Appendectomy for Acute Appendicitis.Digestive surgery · 2017Article
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- Are there reliable indicators predicting post-operative complications in acute appendicitis?Pediatric surgery international · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposeAlthough surgical site infections (SSI) are a major postoperative complication of appendectomy, few studies have focused on the risk factors for SSI. In this study, we investigated the risk factors for SSI in patients who had undergone appendectomy.
methodsThree hundred patients who had undergone open appendectomy were enrolled. The patients were divided into two groups based on the presence or absence of SSI. A statistical analysis was performed to assess the clinical features associated with SSI after appendectomy.
resultsA multivariate analysis using the results of univariate analyses revealed that the serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level (≤ 65/> 65, mg/l), length of the operation (≤ 80/> 80, min) and pathology (catarrhal, phlegmonous/gangrenous) were associated with SSI. Among these three clinical features, only the CRP level was found to predict the risk of SSI prior to appendectomy (odds ratio 3.797; 95 % confidence intervals 1.305-11.04; P = 0.014).
conclusionPreoperative elevation of the serum CRP level (> 65 mg/l) is a valuable predictor of SSI in patients undergoing appendectomy.
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