Follow up by US Following Hospitalization With Periappendicular Abscess Refusing to be Operated on Within a Few Weeks.

NCT ID: NCT01795560

Last Updated: 2013-02-20

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 20 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2013-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2015-02-28

Brief Summary

Follow up via ultrasonic abdoman after patients who were giagnosed and treated as periappendicular abcess and refused to be operated later on in the "interval period ". To ass what occured to their appendics ?

Detailed Description

During the last 10 years patients were hospitalized and treated with antibiotics due to the diagnosis of periappendicular abcess. they were invited to be operate after wards -appendectomy, electively few weeks later on. All these patients refused to be operated. What happend to their appendics few months or years later on via ultrasonic abdomen view??

Conditions

Disorder of Appendix

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_ONLY
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients diagnosed in the last 10 years suffering from periappendicular abcess.

Exclusion Criteria

• after appendectomy

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Prof. Ahud Sternberg

MD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Gershon Keren, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Infectious Diseases Unit

Other Identifiers

5-13

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id