Open AccessA Dissertation on Non Traumatic Abdominal Emergencies
Author(s) -
Y. Satish Reddy
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pharmaceutical research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-9119
DOI - 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i42b32427
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , perforation , typhoid fever , inguinal hernia , bowel obstruction , hernia , disease , surgery , general surgery , pathology , materials science , physics , optics , punching , metallurgy
The incidence of appendicitis is most commonly seen in the age group of non traumatic abdominal emergencies between 15 and 25 accounting for 30% of all the studied cases. In this studied cases males were predominantly affected. The main cause of viscus perforations are Duodenal perforation percentage. This study results shows the male preponderance and also a decrease in age of peptic ulcer majorly due to typhoid. The most commonest hernias to become obstructed is inguinal hernia. Small bowel obstruction seems to be disease of the young as shown by our series. Both the sexes were mostly affected from our findings. Maximum in the 0-10 age group, we had only 3.9% of such cases in our study. The female incidence (56.3%) predominated over the male incidence (43.7%).