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🔴Acute Appendicitis

︎Acute Inflammation Of Appendix After Lumen Obstruction & Bacterial Proliferation

︎More in Children & Young Adults (15-30 Years) & More in Males After Puberty

︎Most Common Cause Of Acute Abdomen in Young Adults & Most Common Surgical Emergency

︎Most Common ExtraUterine Cause Of Acute Abdomen During Pregnancy (More in 2nd Trimester & Has A Risk Of Fetal Loss)

︎Appendix is The Most Common Site For Carcinoid Tumors (Arise From Kulchitsky Cells)

The Appendix is 7.5-10cm IntraPeriToneal Organ Attached To Caecum Of Large Bowel At Right Iliac Fossa


🔹Risk Factors For Appendicitis
1. Decrease Dietary Fibers & Increase Carbs Intake

2. Lumen Obstruction Of Appendix By Fecolith Or Fibrosis Or Tumors (Carcinoids in Middle Age & Elderly)

3. Intestinal Parasites (Oxyuris Vermicularis Pin Worms)

4. Viral Infections (More in Children)


🔹Position Of Appendix
📍A. Base Of Appendix ➡️ Fixed (Constant) At Confluence Of Three Taeniae Coli Of Caecum

📍B. Tip Of Appendix
1. RetroCaecal (Behind Caecum Most Common 74%)

2. Pelvic (2nd Most Common 21%)

3. ParaCaecal (2%)/SubCaecal (1.5%)

4. Postileal (Behind ileum 0.5%)


🔹Clinical Features & Dx
🔶A. Hx
📍1. Start As Poorly Localized Colicky Intermittent Abdominal Pain At PeriUmbilical Area (Visceral Pain)

📍2. Then After 6-10h The Pain Shifted To RIF & Become More Intense & Localized & Constant (Somatic Pain After Parietal Peritoneal Irritation)

📍3. Pain Aggravated By Coughing & Sudden Movements

📍4. Atypical Pain (Suprapubic Discomfort & Tenesmus Aggravated By Rectal Examination) ➡️ More in Elderly

📍5. Anorexia & Vomiting (More in Children)

📍6. Slight Pyrexia After 6h (37.2-37.7°C) & Tachycardia

📍7. Abrupt Onset & Generalised Abdominal Pain From Start With Vomiting & Normal Temperature (Resemble Bowel Obstruction)
Seen in ➡️ Seen in Obstructive Appendicitis (Closed Lumen)


🔶B. Examination
📍1. Guarding ➡️ Voluntary Abdominal Muscle Contractions Due To Pain After Palpation

📍2. Rebound Tenderness (Blumberg's Sign) ➡️ Pain Elicited After Pressure Removal From The RIF

📍3. Rovsing's Sign ➡️ Pain Elicited After Abdominal Palpation From LIF To RIF (Pushing Bowel Loops Toward The Inflamed Appendix)

📍4. Psoas Sign ➡️ Pain Elicited After Right Hip Extension

📍5. Obturator Sign ➡️ Pain Elicited By Hip Flexion & Internal Rotation

📍6. Pointing Sign ➡️ Patient Pointing Where The Pain Started & Moved

📍7. Dunphy Sign ➡️ Pain Elicited By Cough

📍8. McBurney's Sign ➡️ Severe Pain Elicited By Finger Tip Pressure Over McBurney's Area (Between Umbilicus & Anterior Superior Iliac Spine)


🔶C. Alvarado (Mantrels) Score (≥7 Points Strongly Suggest Appendicitis)
︎RIF Tenderness/Leukocytosis ➡️ 2 Points For Each

︎Migratory (Shifting) Pain/Anorexia/Nausea & Vomiting/Elevated Temperature/Rebound Tenderness/WBCS Shifting To Left (Immature Segmented Neutrophils Production) ➡️ 1 Point For Each


🔶D. Lab & Imaging
1. US
︎Lumen Dilatation >3mm
︎Wall Thickness >6mm

2. Contrast CT Of Abdomen (Best)
3. CBC ➡️ Leukocytosis
4. Pregnancy Test To Exclude Ectopic
5. Urinalysis To Exclude UTI & Stones


🔶E. Atypical Features
1. RetroCaecal Appendix ➡️ No Rigidity/Psoas Spasm & Hip Flexion Develop

2. Pelvic Appendix ➡️ Diarehea/Increase Urine Frequency/No Rigidity/Rectal Examination Elicits Tenderness

3. Postileal Appendix ➡️ Retching & Diarrhea/No Pain Shifting/Mild Tenderness


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🔹Mx Of Appendicitis
🔶A. Preoperative Preparation
1. Bowel Rest (Nill By Mouth)

2. IV Fluids (To Establish Urine Output)

3. IV AB (Amoxicillin/Metronidazole/3rd G.Cephalosporins Like Ceftriaxone/Ertapenem)

4. Anti-Pyretics If High Temperature Present (Aspirin For Children Or Paracetamol Vial)


🔶B. Surgical AppendiCectomy (Laparoscopic Or Conventional)

︎Types Of Incisions During Conventional Surgery
1. Gridiron (Most Commonly Used) ➡️ Made At McBurney's Area

2. Rutherford Morison ➡️ Give Better Access If Appendix in Para Or RetroCaecal Position

3. Transverse (Lanz) ➡️ Better Exposure & Easier Extension & Small Size

4. Lower MidLine Abdominal ➡️ When Dx in Doubt & Bowel Obstruction Present


🔶C. Mx Of Appendix Mass ➡️ According To Ochsner Sherren Regime
1. Marks & Follows The Mass Size Using Skin Pencil

2. Give IV Fuids & AB (Cefuroxime 750mg + Metronidazole 500mg)

3. Mostly Mass Resolve in 24-48h (90%) ➡️ Then Do AppendiCectomy After 6w

4. No Mass Resolution ➡️ Suspected Carcinoma Or Crohn's Disease

5. Clinical Deterioration (Mass Developed Abscess) ➡️ Do Laparotomy & Retroperitoneal Abscess Drinage & Appedicectomy


🔹Complications Of Appendicitis
🔶A. Preoperative
📍1. Perforation Of Appendix & Peritonitis Seen More in :
︎Extremity Of Ages (Young Child Or Elderly)
︎Immunosuppression & DM
︎Pelvic Appendix
︎Fecolith Obstruction Of Appendix
︎Previous Abdominal Surgery

📍2. Appendix Mass Formation (Due To Omental & Small Bowel Adhesions)

📍3. Appendix Abscess


🔶B. Postoperative
📍1. Wound Infection (Most Common Postoperative Complication) ➡️ Pain & Erythema At Wound Site On 4th-5th Day

📍2. Intra-Abdominal Abscess ➡️ Develop 5-7 Days After Operation As Spiking Fever With Malaise & Anorexia

📍3. Paralytic Ileus

📍4. DVT (More in Elderly & Women Taking Contraceptives)

📍5. PyleoPhlebitis (Portal Pyaemia) ➡️ High Fever With Rigor & Jaundice Due To IntraHepatic Abscess Formation

📍6. Faecal Fistula

📍7. Bowel Obstruction Due To Adhesions (Most Common Late Complication)

📍8. Pneumonitis & Lobar Collapse

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🔴Gallstones (Cholelithiasis) & Cholysystitis

▪️Gallstones Are Most Common Biliary Pathology (Affect 10-15% Of Population)

▪️Cholecystitis is Acute Or Chronic
Inflammation Of Gallbladder (Mostly Due To Presence Of Gallstones)

︎Cholysystitis is The 2nd Most Common Non-Obstetric Indication For Surgery in Pregnant Women (After Appendicitis)

🔹Risk Factors For Gallstones Formation (Fat/Fertile/Female/Forty)
1. Obesity & High Calorie Intake (Increase Cholesterol & Concentrate The Bile)

2. Terminal Ileum Resection (Diminished EnteroHepatic Circulation)

3. Drugs (Oral Contraceptives/Estrogen/CloFibrate/Cholestyramine/DeoxyCholate)

4. Abnormal Emptying Of Gallbladder 

5. Female Gender & Pregnancy (MultiParity)

6. Liver Diseases & DM

7. Rapid Weight Loss

8. Risk Factors For Pigmented Stones ➡️ Blood Hemolysis/Biliary Stasis (Obstruction & Infection)/Liver Cirrhosis

9. Old Age

10. Long Term Parenteral Nutrition


🔹Clinical Features Of Gallstones
📍1. Most Gallstones Asymptomatic (>80%)

📍2. Acute Cholecystitis
︎Start As Mild To Moderate Episodes Of Right Upper Quadrant Or Epigastric Pain
▪️Dull Or Colicky in Nature

▪️Radiate To Back Or Right Shoulder

▪️Intermittent Episodes (Comes & Go During The Day) & Constant in Severity

▪️Associated With Dyspepsia & Flatulence & Food Intolerance & Alteration in Bowel Frequency

▪️Aggravated Or Induced By Eating Fatty Meals


📍3. Biliary Colic (10-25%)
▪️Severe RUQ Pain Last Minutes Or Hours Radiate To Chest & Associated With Nausea & Vomiting

︎Due To Temporary Stone Obstructing The Cystic Duct

▪️Change In Severity (Ebbs & Flows)

▪️Starts During Night & Wakes Patient From Sleep & Associated With Minor Intermittent Episodes During The Day

▪️When Pain Resolve The Patient is Able To Eat & Drinks Again


📍4. Obstructive Jaundice (Jaundice With Pale Stool & Dark Urine & Itching)
︎Due To CBD Stones ➡️ Stone Migration From Gallbladder To Common Bile Duct

︎Or Due To Mirizzi Syndrome ➡️ Stones Impacted in Hartmann Pouch Of The Gallbladder & Causing Pressure Over The CBD (Risk Of CBD Fistula)


🔹Types Of Cholysystitis
📍1. Calculus Cholecystitis (Acute/Chronic) ➡️ Due To Gallstones

📍2. Acalculous Cholecystitis ➡️
▪️Gallbladder Inflammation Without The Presence Of Gallstones

▪️Mostly Seen in ➡️ Critically ill Patients/Patients Recovering From Major Surgery Or Trauma Or Burns/Immunocompromised/Typhoid Fever

▪️High Mortality Rate

📍3. Emphysematous Cholecystitis
︎Acute Severe & Life-Threatening Cholecystitis Due To Gas-Forming Bacterial infection Of The Gallbladder (C.Perfingrens/C.Welchii/E.coli/Bacteroides Fragilis)

︎More in Men With DM (50-70 Years)

︎Risk Of Gallbladder Gangrene & Perforation


🔹Dx Of Acute Cholecystitis
📍1. Persistent Clinical Features With Fever

📍2. +Ve Murphy Sign ➡️ RUQ Tenderness Exacerbated By Right SubCostal Palpation During Patient Inspiration

📍3. Leukocytosis & Increase Liver Enzymes

📍4. Palpable Mass in RUQ (Omentum Walls Off The Inflamed Bladder)

📍5. US Or CT (Confirm Dx) ➡️ Stones Present With Gallbladder Wall Thickening & Fluid Collection


🔹DDX Of Acute Cholecystitis

1. Acute Appendicitis
2. Perforated Peptic Ulcer
3. Acute Pancreatitis
4. Acute Pyeleonephritis
5. Myocardial Infarction
6. Right Lower Lobe Pneumonia

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🔹Mx Of Cholecystitis
🔸A. Conservative
▪️Conservative Mx Will Resolve The Symptoms in 90% Of Cases

📍1. Nill By Mouth (NPO)
📍2. IV Fluids & Analgesic
📍3. Antibiotics (Cefazolin/Cefuroxime/Ciprofloxacin)


🔸B. Surgery (Cholecystectomy)
📍1. Do Early CholecysteCtomy Within 5-7 Days From Admission & After Symptoms Resolution

📍2. Emergent Choleystectomy ➡️ Due To Severe Presentation Or Complications

📍3. Do Emergent ECRP ➡️ For CBD Stones Removal

📍4. If Empyema Present ➡️ Do Drainage (CholeCystoStomy) Then Later CholecysteCtomy

📍5. Cholecystitis in Pregnancy ➡️ Do Cholecystectomy During 2nd Trimester Only (Not In 1st Or 3rd Trimester)


🔹Indications for Cholecystectomy
1. Cholecystitis (Symptomatic Patients)

2. Complications Develop (Emergency)

3. Typhoid Carrier

4. Cholesterolosis (Cholesterol Polyps)

5. Risk Of Gallbladder Cancer (Porcelain Gallbladder/Adenomatous Gallbladder Polyps)

6. CBD Stones (Choledocholithiasis)

7. Prophylaxis in
︎DM/Congenital Hemolytic Anaemia/Bariatric Surgery

︎Large Palpable Stones (>2.5-3cm)/Multiple Small Stones


🔹Complications Of Cholecystitis
🔶A. Preoperative
1. Acute & Chronic Cholecystitis

2. Biliary Colic

3. Obstructive Jaundice (CBD Stones Or Mirizzi Syndrome)

4. Acute Pancreatitis

5. Gallbladder Perforation & Peritonitis

6. Acute Cholangitis

7. Empyema Of Gallbladder (Pus Accumulation)

8. MucoCele Of Gallbladder (Fluid Accumulation)

9. Bowel Obstruction (Gallstone Ileus)


🔶B. Postoperative (After CholecysteCtomy)
1. Bile Ducts Injury ➡️ Present As Postoperative Obstructive Jaundice

2. Post-CholecysteCtomy Syndrome ➡️ Postoperative Continuation Of The Symptoms Due To Residual Stones in The Biliary Tree

3. Post-CholecysteCtomy Choledocholithiasis ➡️ Development Of New Stones in Bile Ducts Many Years After Cholecystectomy Which Then Leads To Obstruction Or Cholangitis

4. Bile Leakage & Peritonitis (Clips Dislodgment)

5. Biliary Strictures

6. Visceral Or Vessels Injury & Haemorrhage

7. Abdominal Abscess

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