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During an appendectomy, an incision is made through the skin and the layers of the abdominal wall over the appendix part. The surgeon enters into the abdomen for the appendix. The procedure for the removal of appendix is that the surgeon frees the appendix from its mesenteric attachment to the abdomen and colon which gashing it from the colon and then stitch over the hole in colon.

COMPLICATIONS

The most likely appendectomy complication is infection because of the surgical incision. Such kind of infection varies from mild to severe. The moderate infection can demand only antibiotics but the severe infection may ask for antibiotics and surgical treatment. In rare cases, surgeon does not close the incision immediately after the surgery because of the severe inflammation because the wound is already infected. Indeed, the surgeon performs its closing after some days to allow the infection subside completely. The other complication of appendectomy is an abscess. It is a heap of puss in the part of appendix.

CONSEQUENCES

Doctors do not able to make it clear about the important role of appendix in older children and adults. There is no long term health relating problems have been shown after the removal of appendix.

NEW FINDING ABOUT APPENDICITIS

Recently, it has been shown that some of the symptoms of appendicitis are recurrent. The reasons for its recurrence might be the enhanced sensitivity of the intestine and appendix from the earlier inflammation which had made the nerves of the intestine and appendix.

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