Familial Tendency in Acute Appendicitis: Clinical observations

Abstract

Background: appendectomy is the most frequently performed urgent abdominal operation and is often the first surgical procedure performed by a surgeon during his training practice. Objectives of the study: To evaluate the extent of familial tendency among first degree relatives of patients with acute appendicitis. Methods: A prospective study was carried by a single surgical team in Al-Kindy teaching hospital during a period of two years from the 1st of January 2022 to 1st of January 2023. Three hundred patients, subjected to emergency appendicectomy were included in this study. Data were collected from the patients or their relatives by a questionnaire. Results: The collected data of the study showed that out of (300) patients have positive family history, (66.4) of the patients have one family member affected, mainly affecting adolescent age group 143.8%). Out of patients with P_E.H. of AA. (47%) of them had their brothers affected with A, A., (34.8%) their sister’s. (16.7%) their father’s, (14.8%) their mothers, and (31.5 for both fathers and mothers. Acute focal infection was the most common type of infection among male and female (61 the study also shows that there were Only 21 patients (13.5%) with intraluminal obstruction. 17 (80.9%) of them because of fecoliths obstruction, as a major cause. Conclusion: According to our study, there is a high index of suspicion that F. T. plays a major role as an etiological factor in developing acute appendicitis, one can recognize that this critical subject needs to subjected to further clinical trials.