A Case of Recurrent Epiploic Appendagitis Treated With Conservative Management

Epiploic appendagitis is a rare and commonly misdiagnosed cause of acute abdominal pain. Treatment for the initial presentation of epiploic appendagitis is conservative management with anti-inflammatory medications. There is no consensual treatment algorithm for recurrent appendagitis as some studie...

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Autores principales: Christenson, Rachel V, Nguyen, Phuoc D, Wallace, Lincoln R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9440765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36072161
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27686
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description Epiploic appendagitis is a rare and commonly misdiagnosed cause of acute abdominal pain. Treatment for the initial presentation of epiploic appendagitis is conservative management with anti-inflammatory medications. There is no consensual treatment algorithm for recurrent appendagitis as some studies recommend conservative management and others recommend surgical excision. This case report will cover a patient who presented with recurrent epiploic appendagitis and was treated with conservative management.
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spelling pubmed-94407652022-09-06 A Case of Recurrent Epiploic Appendagitis Treated With Conservative Management Christenson, Rachel V Nguyen, Phuoc D Wallace, Lincoln R Cureus Emergency Medicine Epiploic appendagitis is a rare and commonly misdiagnosed cause of acute abdominal pain. Treatment for the initial presentation of epiploic appendagitis is conservative management with anti-inflammatory medications. There is no consensual treatment algorithm for recurrent appendagitis as some studies recommend conservative management and others recommend surgical excision. This case report will cover a patient who presented with recurrent epiploic appendagitis and was treated with conservative management. Cureus 2022-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9440765/ /pubmed/36072161 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27686 Text en Copyright © 2022, Christenson et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9440765/
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