APPENDISITIS AKUT
Pembimbing:
dr. Ari Jaka, SpB
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EPIDEMIOLOGY
In USA > 250.000 appendectomies/year that has been done & it is the common abdominal
emergency surgery
< 2 years old its incidens is 70-80% for perforation & the common peritonitis because of
the delaying diagnostic
ETIOLOGY
Mucosal ulceration
Fecal mass (fecalith or appendicolith)
Vegetable matter or seeds
Stricture (lymphoid hyperplasia, neoplasm)
Infection (parasite)
PATOPHYSIOLOGY
Mucus, stool (fecalith or Necrosis
I
appendicolith), lymphoid hyperplasia, f
vegetable matter or seeds, neoplasm
or parasites The blood supply to Reduced Perforation
the appendix is cut
blood flow
off
Appendicular Peritonitis
Inflammation abcsess
Multiplying bacteria,
Restricting blood flow inflammation and Appendix
to the organ pressure continue to contracts
increase