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The Alvarado Score is accurate in pregnancy: a retrospective case-control study
- Source :
- European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society. 45(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Acute appendicitis is the most frequent abdominal condition that requires non-obstetric surgical intervention during pregnancy. This study aims to scan pregnant patients operated on for acute appendicitis to evaluate the efficiency of using the Alvarado Score (AS) for diagnosis. Our study included 48 pregnant patients who were pre-diagnosed with acute appendicitis and operated on at our department of general surgery from January 2010 to July 2016 and whose files were accessed. Fifty-three non-pregnant female patients of reproductive age who were operated on for appendicitis during the same period were included in the study as the control group. The patients in both groups were divided into two groups based on their AS total score being 7 and ≥ 7. The mean age of the 48 pregnant patients was 28 (19–42) years, while the mean age of the 53 control patients was 31 (18–45) years. Among pregnant and non-pregnant women, about a third of patients had an AS
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Sports medicine
Adolescent
Fever
Leukocytosis
Neutrophils
Gestational Age
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
03 medical and health sciences
Reference test
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Pregnancy
Medicine
Appendectomy
Humans
Surgical Wound Infection
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
Retrospective Studies
030222 orthopedics
business.industry
Obstetrics
Significant difference
Case-control study
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
Nausea
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Appendicitis
Abdominal Pain
Anorexia
Pregnancy Complications
Alvarado score
Case-Control Studies
Acute appendicitis
Emergency Medicine
Surgery
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18639941
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f596ccf82d68e1e9f35f4b88a883fa44