Good long-term outcomes for appendicitis treated with antibiotics: study
Over half recovered without requiring surgery, but recurrent appendicitis was the only long-term risk for some.
More than half of patients treated non-operatively for acute appendicitis did not experience recurrence and avoided surgery over two decades of follow-up, according to Swedish doctors.
Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm looked at long-term outcomes (19-26 years) among participants in the first two randomised clinical trials comparing appendectomy to non-operative treatment for appendicitis.
