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Area of Science:

  • General Surgery
  • Gastroenterology
  • Infectious Diseases

Background:

  • Acute appendicitis is a common cause of acute abdominal pain.
  • Appendectomy is the standard treatment, but carries inherent surgical risks.
  • Conservative antibiotic treatment has been explored as an alternative.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the efficacy of antibiotic treatment versus appendectomy for acute appendicitis.
  • To assess recovery within two weeks and absence of major complications within one year.
  • To determine if antibiotic treatment is non-inferior to appendectomy.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of randomized and quasi-randomized clinical trials.
  • Searched multiple databases including Cochrane, MEDLINE, and EMBASE.
  • Non-inferiority analysis with a 20% margin was performed.

Main Results:

  • Five RCTs involving 901 patients were analyzed.
  • Antibiotic treatment achieved a cure rate of 73.4% within two weeks.
  • Appendectomy resulted in a cure rate of 97.4% within two weeks.

Conclusions:

  • The study's primary outcome was inconclusive due to the upper confidence interval crossing the non-inferiority margin.
  • Low to moderate study quality necessitates cautious interpretation of results.
  • Appendectomy remains the standard; antibiotic treatment may be an alternative in specific cases or future high-quality RCTs.