A study shows that using antibiotics alone to treat children with appendicitis is a cost-effective and safe alternative to ...

Antibiotic therapy is a safe first-line option for patients with acute appendicitis and a valid alternative to surgery, Hansson and colleagues report. In some studies, appendicectomy is associated ...

Treating children who have uncomplicated acute appendicitis only with antibiotics is both cost-effective and safe compared to ...

Using antibiotics alone to treat children with uncomplicated appendicitis is a cost-saving alternative to surgery, according ...

Treating children who have uncomplicated acute appendicitis only with antibiotics is both cost-effective and safe compared to having surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of the ...

Aria, who is now 21 and in nursing school, was one of the early patients enrolled in the first trial of whether antibiotics ...

For patients with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, the noninferiority of oral antibiotics alone compared with a combination of intravenous and oral antibiotics could not be demonstrated in a ...

Treating uncomplicated pediatric appendicitis with antibiotics is cost-effective and safe. A study analyzed over 1,000 cases, ...

Studies in pediatric patients suggest that acute appendicitis can be managed electively following antibiotic therapy, which challenges the time-honored practice of prompt appendectomy. To ...

The antibiotic therapy of uncomplicated appendicitis has a success rate of about 90% in the early stage of the condition (2). While it is true that the effectiveness of conservative treatment is ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS: A prospective, multicenter observation study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis in the operative treatment of appendicitis. METHODS ...

J.H. "Pat" Patton, M.D., medical director of Surgical Services for Henry Ford Health System and a study co-investigator. Study Shows Antibiotics May be Viable Treatment Option for Appendicitis ...