Research Article
Factors Associated with Perforated Appendicitis in Elderly Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Table 2
Comparison of clinical presentation in the two groups.
| | Clinical presentation | Perforated appendicitis
() (%) | Acute appendicitis
() (%) | value |
| | Nausea and/or vomiting | 67 (65) | 60 (58.3) | 0.316 | | Anorexia | 65 (63.1) | 50 (48.5) | 0.035 | | Migratory pain | 60 (58.3) | 58 (56.3) | 0.778 | | Fever > 38°C | 44 (42.7) | 26 (25.2) | 0.008 | | RLQ tenderness | 102 (99) | 103 (100) | 1.000 | | Rebound tenderness | 91 (88.3) | 83 (80.6) | 0.124 | | WBC > 10 × 109 cell/L | 87 (84.5) | 89 (86.4) | 0.693 | | Neutrophil > 75% | 74 (71.8) | 83 (80.6) | 0.141 | | Alvarado score (mean ± SD) | 7.58 ± 1.49 | 7.29 ± 1.36 | 0.199 | | Imaging study | 31 (48.4) | 33 (51.6) | 0.763 | | Computerized tomography | 22 (21.4) | 22 (21.4) | 1.000 | | Acute appendicitis | 4 (18.2) | 21 (95.5) | <0.001 | | Ruptured appendicitis | 18 (81.8) | 1 (4.5) | | | Ultrasonography | 11 (10.7) | 12 (11.7) | 0.825 | | Acute appendicitis | 6 (54.5) | 12 (100.0) | 0.024 | | Ruptured appendicitis | 5 (45.5) | 0 (0.0) | | | Time to imaging (mean ± SD) | 8.53 ± 3.57 | 5.33 ± 2.33 | <0.001 |
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: value < 0.05 is statistically significant.
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