Clinical study of specialists from the United States showed that antibiotics can be used as effective therapy of the first line in the treatment of appendicitis. The new article of scientists has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
In a clinical study, CODA was attended by 1552 patients with appendicitis. They were divided into two equal groups – one went through the course of antibiotic therapy, and the appendctomy was prescribed – an operation to remove the worve-like film of the blind intestine.
“For the first three months after the start of taking antibiotics, almost seven of ten patients from the group of antibiotics escaped appendctomy. For four years, only about 50 percent of them took operation,” says one of the researchers, Professor of Washington University David Flum. For other patients, it was possible to continue treatment with antibiotics and operation.
At the same time, it turned out that in patients with appendicolitis – a calcined carte accumulation in the process – the risk of complications and appendctomy during the first 30 days of treatment with antibiotics was higher. After the 90th day, such patients have the risk of needing appendctomy decreased.