Epidemiology of Acute Appendicitis

Abstract

Introduction: Surgery for acute appendicitis is the most common surgery performed worldwide. Aim: This study was led to investigate the statistical attributes, occurrence, and patterns of Acute Appendicitis over a time frame of two years from Jan 2017 to Dec 2018 at a peripheral hospital in Maharashtra, India. It likewise contemplated the measurement of informative supplement in instances of Acute Appendicitis on Ultrasonography assessment and dissected the histopathology reports of the appendectomy specimens. Materials: We directed a retrospective analysis to evaluate the statistical highlights including the demographic features and seasonal variation of acute appendicitis in a peripheral hospital in Maharashtra, India over a time of two years from Jan 2017 to Dec 2018. Ultrasound reports of all cases worked for Acute Appendicitis were analysed. All carefully resected appendectomy specimens which were submitted for histopathological studies and histopathology reports were analysed. Results and Conclusion: The occurrence of Acute Appendicitis is increasingly common in males when contrasted with females. The most elevated rate happens in the age group of 20-30 years. Negative appendectomies were 18.68% and females were all the more regularly worked for negative appendectomies (12 out of 17 making it to 70.58%). The frequency is most noteworthy in the long stretches of October (15.94%) and November (13.04%).Ultrasonography of the abdomen uncovered a diameter of more than 6mm as a rule of acute appendicitis. In a perfect therapeutic world, we might want to ideally determine and get all patients having suspected Acute Appendicitis undergo appendicectomy without negative appendectomies yet a fine parity must be kept up between the potential dangers of negative appendectomy as opposed to inclining the patient to the probability of appendicular perforation at whatever point there is an analytic difficulty.