Inflammatory Parameters as Predictive Factors for Complicated Appendicitis

Centro Hospitalar do Tâmega e Sousa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Appendicitis

Treatments: Other: dosing of inflammatory parameters

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05116124

CHR123456

Details and patient eligibility

About

Acute appendicitis is a major cause of acute abdomen. Although its diagnosis is clinical, it is often supported by complementary diagnostic tests. Sometimes, delay in diagnosis can lead to worsening of the clinical picture, resulting in a complicated acute appendicitis. Some series have studied some clinical and analytical parameters as possible predictors of complicated acute appendicitis.

A retrospective analysis of patients admitted for acute appendicitis and undergoing appendectomy between January 2014 and December 2017 was performed in order to assess the possible existence of preoperative analytical predictive factors for complicated acute appendicitis (such as leukocytosis, C-reactive protein and ratio between neutrophils and lymphocytes).

Enrollment: 841 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all patients admitted for acute appendicitis

Exclusion criteria

• excluded if no existence of dosing of all the inflammatory parameters cited above

Trial design

841 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1 - uncomplicated appendicitis

Treatment:

Other: dosing of inflammatory parameters

Group 2 - complicated appendicitis

Treatment:

Other: dosing of inflammatory parameters