ArticleThe American journal of emergency medicine2021
Acute complex appendicitis during the COVID-19 epidemic: A single-institution retrospective analysis based on real-world data.
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- Spontaneous Resolution of Uncomplicated Appendicitis may Explain Increase in Proportion of Complicated Appendicitis During Covid-19 Pandemic: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.World journal of surgery · 2023Pooled it
- Global burden of the COVID-19 associated patient-related delay in emergency healthcare: a panel of systematic review and meta-analyses.Globalization and health · 2022Pooled it
- SARS-CoV-2 infection and complicated appendicitis in adults in Lima, Peru: a matched case-control study.BMC surgery · 2025Article
- Changes in the Presentation and Severity of Acute Appendicitis: A Comparison of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Eras.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Comparison of Clinical, Pathological, and Procedural Characteristics of Adult and Pediatric Acute Appendicitis before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Changes in the frequency, presentation and surgical outcomes of complicated appendicitis during the pandemic.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2024Article
- Analyzing the dynamics of complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Seoul, Korea: a multifaceted time series approach.Epidemiology and health · 2024Article
- Perioperative considerations for acute appendicitis in patients with COVID-19 infection: two case reports.Annals of coloproctology · 2023Article
- Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with presumed diagnosis of acute appendicitis.World journal of clinical cases · 2022Article
- Incidence of complicated appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of surgery open · 2022Review
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- Acute appendicitis-advances and controversies.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2021Review
- Delayed presentation of children to the emergency department during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: Area-based cohort study.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo investigate the influence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on incidence of acute complex appendicitis and management of acute appendicitis.
methodsPatients undergoing acute appendicitis surgery in a single center during the COVID-19 epidemic from January to September 2020 and patients from January to September 2019 were taken as the epidemic group and control group respectively. The clinical characteristics and surgical pathological information were compared between the two groups. The primary outcome measure was complex appendicitis.
resultsA total of 235 patients were included in the study, containing 106 in the epidemic group and 129 in the control group. The patients in the epidemic group had a significantly longer interval from the onset of symptoms to registration (37.92 h vs 24.57 h, P = 0.028), from registration to admission (18.69 h vs 8.04 h, P < 0.001), and from admission to surgery (7.23 h vs 6.52 h, P = 0.016). The epidemic group had a higher incidence of suppurative appendicitis (86.8% vs 76.0%, P = 0.036) and a higher incidence of complex appendicitis (35.8% vs 19.4%, P = 0.005).
conclusionHigher incidence of acute complex appendicitis seemed to occur during COVID-19 outbreak.
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