ArticleAnnals of surgical treatment and research2021
Magnetic resonance imaging reduces the rate of unnecessary operations in pregnant patients with suspected acute appendicitis: a retrospective study.
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- Accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging for acute appendicitis in pregnant women: an updated diagnostic systematic review and meta-analysis.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2026Pooled it
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnosis of acute appendicitis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Assessment of Acute Appendicitis in Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence.Cureus · 2026Review
- Observation Safely Reduces the Use of the Computerized Tomography in Medium-to-Low-Risk Patients with Suspected Acute Appendicitis: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Suspected and Confirmed Acute Appendicitis During the COVID-19 Pandemic: First and Second Quarantines-a Prospective Study.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Diagnostic Performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Detection of Acute Appendicitis in Pregnant Women; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2022Review
- The Dynamics of Inflammatory Markers in Patients with Suspected Acute Appendicitis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- Conditional CT Strategy-An Effective Tool to Reduce Negative Appendectomy Rate and the Overuse of the CT.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Pregnant patients requiring emergency general surgery: a scoping review of diagnostic and management strategies.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgieArticle
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Abstract
purposeThis is a retrospective single-institution study performed to compare the rate of unnecessary operations in pregnant women with suspected acute appendicitis with and without the use of MRI.
methodsThe study subjects were all pregnant women with suspected acute appendicitis admitted to a tertiary institution from January 2012 to December 2019. If acute appendicitis was not excluded clinically and by ultrasound (US), laparoscopies were performed until May 2017 (US-only group). MRI was added as a diagnostic tool when US was inconclusive from May 2017 (US + MRI group). Surgery was considered unnecessary when no inflamed appendix was found. The rate of unnecessary surgery, postoperative complications, length of stay were analyzed.
resultsSeventy-six women were included in the study; 38 women in the US-only group and 38 women in the US + MRI group. There were no differences in admission characteristics between the groups. One of 38 women (2.6%) underwent unnecessary surgery in the US + MRI group
conclusionThe rate of unnecessary surgery was significantly reduced in pregnant women, who underwent MRI after inconclusive transabdominal US.
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