Those with perforated appendicitis were treated according to local protocol. The type of antibiotics used was based on location and was the same as those used in the antibiotic group.

Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks closed its 12-bed ward on July 1, leaving the Ventura County Medical ...

De Garengeot's hernia with appendicitis requires emergency surgery with both appendectomy and hernia repair to prevent fulminant sepsis and complications such as strangulation, perforation and abscess ...

The appendix is an organ that is credited with very little significance and often removed indiscriminately to avoid complications due to infection. However, modern researchers believe that the ...

A previously healthy 10-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with central abdominal pain, loose stool and vomiting. He was diagnosed with gastroenteritis, but was well enough to be ...

This paper focuses on reducing the vibration noise of amorphous metal alloy core superconducting distribution transformers (AMSDTs) with a micro-perforated panel (MPP) absorber. An AMSDT model was ...

We developed a method to improve specimen preparation for electron cryo-microscopy of membrane proteins. The method features a perforated hydrogel nanomembrane that stabilizes the thin film of aqueous ...