Sunday, March 2, 2008

Acute appendicitis is the performance and how the treatment?

Acute appendicitis is the acute inflammation appendectomy, Our common emergency situation, I should briefly explain to you the disease.
Appendix is a continuation of the human colon, but the terminal is closed. In childhood, an appendectomy is immune organs of resisting infection, but in the adult stage has been no functional degradation.
As appendectomy linked with colon and colon storage stool is the place, so when a colon inflammation, be squeezed into the appendectomy, and other pathological conditions, the appendix inflammation may occur, there congestion, swelling, severe when there Septic perforated appendix, will be entered at this time enteral stool peritoneal cavity, caused acute peritonitis.
Typical patients with acute appendicitis at first cause abdominal pain, often giving the misconception that gastritis, in the hours after the pain gradually shifted to the right lower abdomen, sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, fever, and so on performance. Oppression right lower quadrant tenderness can, while partial muscle tension flu.
After the above symptoms, your best immediately to the hospital. In the diagnosis of appendicitis, and should check the urine routine abdominal ultrasound, remove urinary stones; of female patients must be invited to gynecological consultation, excluded gynecological diseases. So far, no appendicitis is still a certain checks can be diagnosed, mostly on the clinical experience of physicians.
After the diagnosis of appendicitis, doctors will be decided according to the prevailing situation of conservative treatment is a medical or surgical treatment. Conservative treatment include: fasting, intravenous infusion, and antibiotic treatment (anti-inflammatory). Treatment of patients with symptoms will continue to disappear, blood back to normal. Surgical resection is the treatment of inflammation appendectomy. Surgical resection is appendectomy in one of the most common surgery, under normal circumstances the use of continuous epidural anesthesia, similar to what is commonly known as "spinal anesthesia," but there are some differences. Surgery Under normal circumstances relatively smoothly, but sometimes encountered very difficult circumstances.
Under normal circumstances, the body resection appendectomy and will not have adverse effects, but is still a need for acute appendicitis early discovery, early diagnosis and early treatment.

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