Status:
COMPLETED
Primary Cecal Pathologies Presenting as Acute Abdomen
Lead Sponsor:
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College
Conditions:
Acute Abdomen
Emergency Surgery
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Brief Summary
Background: The importance of cecal pathologies lie in the fact that being the first part of large intestine, any disease involving the cecum affects overall functioning of the large bowel. Primary ce...
Detailed Description
The importance of cecal pathologies lie in the fact that being the first part of large intestine, any disease involving the cecum affects overall functioning of the large bowel. Primary cecal patholog...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All adult patients presenting in emergency department with acute abdomen were included in study in whom cecal pathology as the cause of acute abdomen was suspected clinically and/or on imaging and further confirmed per-operatively and/or on histopathological examination (HPE) or on imaging. Patients identified with primarily a cecal pathology who had acute pain abdomen as the initial symptom but who didn't presented immediately due to various reasons were also included in the study as it is a well-documented fact that patients in developing countries like India, especially those who live in rural areas or who are illiterate often resort to indigenous methods of treatment or take symptomatic treatment from local practitioners before presenting to a tertiary centre for definitive treatment. Also, only those patients who were operated within 24 hours of index admission in the emergency operation theatre (EOT) by a registrar or faculty member after initial resuscitation were included in the study.
Exclusion
- Patients with sub-acute, intermittent or chronic pain; when predominant symptoms were attributable to some other cause even with concomitant presence of a cecal pathology; when predominant pathology was not cecal and patients with cecal pathology operated as an elective case were excluded from this study. Thus patients diagnosed to be having appendiceal stump blowout, perforation of base of appendix, ileocecal tuberculosis or intussusception were not included.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2016
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 15 2017
Estimated Enrollment :
43 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03262025
Start Date
January 1 2016
End Date
July 15 2017
Last Update
August 25 2017
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