Appendicitis Complications and Other Appendix Affections
Besides appendicitis, there are other possible affections of the appendix, such as swallowed foreign bodies, pinworms, fecaliths, carcinoids, cancer, villous adenomas, and diverticula, or involvement in idiopathic ulcerative colitis or the ileocolitis of Crohn's disease.
Acute appendicitis is, along with hernia, the most common cause for abdominal operations in the U.S. Due to the fact that there are many different symptoms that point to appendicitis and the diagnosis is never sure, around 15% of the surgeries for acute appendicitis pointed to other diseases or the complete absence of a health problem at laparoscopy.
Peritonitis is the most severe complication generated by appendicitis and represents an emergency. Even if it is discovered and treated immediately, it still remains a very serious problem in some cases. This disease consists in infecting the lining of your abdominal cavity, following appendix perforation, and spilling the infectious organisms it contains into your peritoneal cavity. The first sensation that follows this rupture is of pain relief, but immediately replaced by full abdominal area pain, caused by fluids and gases. It is possible in case of peritonitis for the pain not to locate in the appendicle area but a bowl or the inability to release gas accompanied by fever, the sensation of thirst and a smaller amount of urine should immediately alarm you.
More exposed to the risk of appendix rupture than the adults, are the children, whose symptoms are often untypical causing a delay of diagnosis and treatment so that pain in the abdominal area should be taken very seriously. Medical advice is recommended.
A collection of the infection which forms an abscess of the appendix varying in size can be very dangerous if not removed in time, because the rupture of such abscess generates in most of the cases peritonitis.