Colonic Resections in Patients With Suspected Appendicitis

Cirujanos la Serena

Status: Completed

Conditions: Appendicitis; Colectomy

Treatments: Procedure: Right hemicolectomy with or without primary anastomosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00888888

HLS-2604009-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Although many reports have been published on colonic resections in patients with suspected appendicitis and the diseases that cause the decision to resect the colon have been identified and their proper treatments have been established, there is no report on the risk factors present in converting a simple appendectomy into a major colonic resection.

The investigators aimed to identify the risk factors that lead the surgeon to perform a colonic resection in patients undergoing surgery for initially suspected acute appendicitis.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients older than 15 years of age
• Male or female
• Suspected of having acute appendicitis
• Converted to right hemicolectomy

Exclusion criteria

• Patients in whom a right hemicolectomy was planned initially
• Right hemicolectomy for causes other than suspected acute appendicitis

Trial design

87 participants in 1 patient group

Cohort: Patients with colonic resections

Description:

Colonic resections in patients submitted to appendicectomy for suspected acute appendicitis

Treatment:

Procedure: Right hemicolectomy with or without primary anastomosis