{"id":2701,"date":"2023-10-10T01:47:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/treatment-of-appendicitis-and-other-stories\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T01:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:47:31","slug":"treatment-of-appendicitis-and-other-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/treatment-of-appendicitis-and-other-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment of appendicitis.  .  .and other stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"highwire-journal-article-marker-start\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"section other1\" id=\"sec-1\">\n<h2 class=\"\">Long-term outcome of medically treated acute appendicitis<\/h2>\n<p id=\"p-1\">A follow-up study of a Swedish clinical trial comparing surgery and antibiotic treatment for acute appendicitis succeeded in following up 90% of participants after 20 years. Although the incidence of appendectomies after 1 year was lower in the drug-treated group, appendectomies continued to occur throughout the follow-up period. Still, more than half of patients treated nonsurgically did not experience recurrence and avoided surgery. Other than appendicitis recurrence, no other long-term risks occurred with nonsurgical management (<em>JAMA Surge<\/em> doi:10.1001\/jamasurg.2023.2756).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"section other2\" id=\"sec-2\">\n<h2 class=\"\">go with the (pulsating) flow<\/h2>\n<p id=\"p-2\">In healthy people, blood flow in the aorta is laminar. This is worth noting. Because if the peak velocity is reproduced in steady state in the pipe, the flow&#8230; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"highwire-journal-article-marker-end\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term outcome of medically treated acute appendicitis A follow-up study of a Swedish clinical trial comparing surgery and antibiotic treatment for acute appendicitis succeeded in following up 90% of participants after 20 years. Although the incidence of appendectomies after 1 year was lower in the drug-treated group, appendectomies continued to occur throughout the follow-up period. &#8230; <a title=\"Treatment of appendicitis.  .  .and other stories\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/treatment-of-appendicitis-and-other-stories\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Treatment of appendicitis.  .  .and other stories\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[1717,125,1718,15],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appendicitis","tag-and","tag-appendicitis","tag-stories","tag-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drhimanshuyadav.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}