Acute appendicitis is dangerous for its complications. It is a disease that should be treated as soon as possible. Otherwise, the condition may worsen and cope with all the consequences of the disease will be quite difficult.
Preoperative complications of acute appendicitis
Common problems include the following:
- Perforation, as a rule, begins to develop on the second-third day after the first attack. The patient suffers from increased pains in the abdomen. In addition, the symptoms of such complications of acute appendicitis, as peritonitis - local soreness in the appendix and fever become pronounced.
- Appendicular abscesses are characteristic for the late period of the disease. The cause of this problem is suppuration of the appendicular infiltrate. Cope with the ailment helps dissect the abscess.
- When pyleflebite inflamed portal vein. This occurs against the background of the transition of the inflammatory process from the veins of the mesenteric appendix.
- Chronic appendicitis is diagnosed by pain in the lower abdomen, constipation, nausea.
Postoperative complications of acute appendicitis
They are early and late. The early ones are usually diagnosed within a couple of weeks after surgery. They include:
- suppuration and inflammation of the edges of the wound;
- seam divergence;
- bleeding from the wound.
Later complications of acute appendicitis are manifested two weeks after the operation. The most common among them are:
- postoperative hernia;
- neurinoma of scars;
- ligature fistulas;
- abscesses of the abdominal cavity;
- cultivates;
- adhesive disease;
- acute intestinal obstruction .
Prevention of complications of acute appendicitis
The only way to prevent complications of acute form of appendicitis is to consult a doctor in a timely manner. To get an appointment with a surgeon to a patient with such a diagnosis should be no later than 6-12 hours after the onset of the disease.