Thousands of Russians can avoid them for optional removal of the Appendix if you have appendicitis will receive powerful antibiotics. This is the conclusion reached by researchers.
Appendicitis is one of the most common reasons for emergency surgery in Russia and many other countries. Although removal of the inflamed Appendix is the most simple abdominal surgery, the operation still entails certain risks. The delay in the removal of the Appendix prone to rupture that organ, and purulent peritonitis, life-threatening. That’s why doctors prefer not to risk it and as soon as possible to put patients on the surgical table. But perhaps they went too fast. A new study found that many patients could avoid unnecessary for their operations, if they were given powerful antibiotics.
We are talking about the treatment of uncomplicated cases of appendicitis, where strong antibiotics are an excellent alternative to appendectomy. The study showed that the antibiotics could get rid of 60% of those patients who go through surgery. It turned out that in this case even after 5 years the Appendix remained within the normal range, did not require any manipulation by the surgeons. In the long term, many patients who passed through the unnecessary removal of the Appendix, there were a greater number of unpleasant symptoms.
The study’s authors believe that the treatment of patients with appendicitis medication instead of a scalpel to save lives, accelerate their recovery and reduce the cost of operations. Call of uncomplicated appendicitis in which the Appendix is inflamed, but does not lead to perforation of the body or more serious infections. The share of uncomplicated accounts for up to 80% of all cases of appendicitis. (READ MORE)