Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on incidence and severity of acute appendicitis: a comparison between 2019 and 2020

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on incidence and severity of acute appendicitis: a comparison between 2019 and 2020

Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, a decrease in the number of patients presenting with acute appendicitis was observed. It is unclear whether this caused a shift towards more complicated cases of acute appendicitis. We compared a cohort of patients diagnosed with acute appendicitis d...

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Main Authors: Jochem C. G. Scheijmans, Alexander B. J. Borgstein, Carl A. J. Puylaert, Wouter J. Bom, Said Bachiri, Eduard A. van Bodegraven, Amarins T. A. Brandsma, Floor M. ter Brugge, Steve M. M. de Castro, Roy Couvreur, Lotte C. Franken, Marcia P. Gaspersz, Michelle R. de Graaff, Hannah Groenen, Suzanne C. Kleipool, Toon J. L. Kuypers, Milou H. Martens, David M. Mens, Ricardo G. Orsini, Nando J. M. M. Reneerkens, Thomas Schok, Wouter J. A. Sedee, Shahzad Tavakoli Rad, José H. Volders, Pepijn D. Weeder, Jan M. Prins, Hester A. Gietema, Jaap Stoker, Suzanne S. Gisbertz, Marc G. H. Besselink, Marja A. Boermeester, the SCOUT Collaboarative Study group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:BMC Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Acute appendicitis
COVID-19 pandemic
Complicated appendicitis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-021-00454-y

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-021-00454-y

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