ArticleUlusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES2022
Complicated or non-complicated appendicitis? That is the question.
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- Abdominal drainage to prevent intraperitoneal abscess after appendectomy for complicated appendicitis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Phlegmonous appendicitis as a variant of uncomplicated appendicitis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Delta neutrophil index, CRP/albumin ratio, procalcitonin, immature granulocytes, and HALP score in acute appendicitis: Best performing biomarker?Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Value of Systemic Immune Inflammation Index in Identifying Complicated Acute Appendicitis Cases.Cureus · 2024Article
- MaskAppendix: Backbone-Enriched Mask R-CNN Based on Grad-CAM for Automatic Appendix Segmentation.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Predictive efficacy of immature granulocytes in acute complicated appendicitis.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundAcute appendicitis (AA) is a common disease that includes all age groups and both genders in societies and is one of the most common causes of acute abdomen. It is important to distinguish between complicated and non-complicated appendicitis before surgery. This study aims to determine laboratory parameters that can be used to determine whether the disease is complicated or non-complicated in patients admitted to the emergency department with AA.
methodsFemale and male patients admitted to the Emergency General Surgery Department between May 2019 and November 2020 and diagnosed with appendicitis were included in the study. Demographic data (age, gender, and protocol numbers), complete blood counts (Delta neutrophil index [DNI], hemoglobin, monocyte, neutrophil, eosinophil, basophil, platelet, platelet distribution width, mean platelet volume, reticulocyte distribution width), biochemical parameters (amylase, direct bilirubin, indirect bilirubin, albumin, calcium, and lactate dehydrogenase), and examination information were obtained from the hospital automation system and recorded via SPSS software. Parameters of patients were divided into two groups as complicated and non-complicated appendicitis groups were compared.
resultsWhite blood cell (WBC), monocyte, neutrophil, DNI, total bilirubin, and direct bilirubin values were found to be statisti-cally significantly higher in the complicated appendicitis group compared to the non-complicated appendicitis group (p-values; <0.001, 0.003, <0.001, <0.001 and 0.008, respectively).
conclusionDNI, bilirubin values, WBC, monocyte, neutrophil, and eosinophil can be used as laboratory parameters to distin-guish between complicated and non-complicated AA.
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