Open AccessACUTE APPENDICITIS
Author(s) -
Javeria Farid,
Rizwanullah Junaid Bhambhro,
Suhail Ahmed Soomro
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2016.23.03.1465
Subject(s) - medicine , leukocytosis , vomiting , anorexia , nausea , surgery , abdominal pain , constipation , iliac fossa , epigastric pain , diarrhea , convalescence , complication , anesthesia
Objectives: To determine the clinical presenting pattern and postoperativecomplications of acute appendicitis. Study design: Observational and cross-sectional study.Setting: Isra university hospital Hyderabad. Period: 7 months. Methodology: All the patientsabove 12 years of age and both genders male/female after diagnosis of acute appendicitishad integrated in the study. Complete clinical pattern and postoperative complications hadrecorded. Results: Symptoms/sign nausea, vomiting, anorexia, rebound tenderness, fever,constipation, diarrhea and leukocytosis were noted with the percentage 98.0%, 65.0%, 95.0%,90.0%, 85.0%, 58.0%, 30.0% and 89.0% respectively. Paraumblical pain was noted in 50.0%of the cases, right iliac fossa pain was in the 99.0%, epigastric pain was seen in 61.0% and theother abdominal pain was noted in the 39.0%. Postoperative complications found in 33.0% ofthe cases and majority was seen wound infection. Conclusion: In the conclusion of this studyclinical features nausea, vomiting, anorexia, rebound tenderness, fever, and leukocytosis wereseen as most common and the most important postoperative complication is infection whichprobably created with the uncompleted sterilization.