Patient backgrounds and short-term outcomes of complicated appendicitis differ from those of uncomplicated appendicitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Appendicitis is classified as either complicated (CA) or uncomplicated (UA). Some authors have shown that the epidemiologic trends of CA and UA may differ. The aim of this study was to clarify differences in backgrounds and surgical outcomes between CA and UA patients.

Methods

This study was a cohort study. We extracted case data from the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) database from January 2014 to December 2017. Patients were classified into three groups, depending on whether they underwent emergency appendectomy for CA (CA group), emergency appendectomy for UA (UA group), or elective appendectomy (EA group). We evaluated patient characteristics and surgical outcomes for each group.

Results

We included 89,355 adult patients in the study, co

SUBMITTER: Oba T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8889856 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature