The main symptom of appendicitis is abdominal pain. The pain is at first diffuse and poorly localized, so it seems to the patient that the whole abdomen hurts. It is so difficult to specify the pain localization that being asked to point the area of pain most people indicate its location with a circular motion [...]
Appendicitis is an acute or sometimes chronic, progressing disease of the abdominal cavity caused by infection or blockage of the appendix – the appendix of the caecum. Appendicitis may develop at any age, but most often it occurs in adolescents and young people. Most of surgeries on the abdominal organs are just about appendicitis.
The appendix [...]
It happens that that the human body has such a strong immunity that it is capable to suppress the appendix inflammation on its own. However, with the immunity weakening or increasing of abdominal muscles load the inflammation “raises its head” again. This so-called chronic appendicitis – a man is suffered from pain in the right [...]
It can be difficult to diagnose appendicitis as appendicitis symptoms vary depending on the location of the appendix, and the doctor can’t “see” through the patient’s abdomen. Traditionally appendicitis diagnosis is based on blood and urine tests. The number of white blood cells in the blood increases and protein appears in urine. However diagnostics of [...]
If a patient suffered from pain is admitted to hospital no doctor will operate on him immediately. This is due to the fact that many other disorders such as inflammatory processes in kidneys or inflammation of the genital organs in women may mimic appendicitis symptoms. Therefore, physicians will first observe the development of the disease [...]
