The common motives for appendectomy in Hail Region Saudi Arabia

Fawaz D Alshammari; Hanan A Oreiby; Hussain Gadelkarim Ahmed; Khalid Alshaghdali; Jerold C Alcantara; Gamal Mohamed Elawad Ahmed; Sara A Seifeldin; Emad Abboh Abdallah Abboh; Waleed Mansi Al Shammari; Fawzia Mutasim M Al Tayeeb; Bandar S Al Saif; Ali Ahmed Al Qahtani; Samir Abdulkarim Alharbi; Ibtihag Siddig Elnaem

doi:10.3934/publichealth.2020011

The common motives for appendectomy in Hail Region Saudi Arabia

AIMS Public Health. 2020 Mar 3;7(1):114-122. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2020011. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Fawaz D Alshammari¹, Hanan A Oreiby², Hussain Gadelkarim Ahmed^{3

4}, Khalid Alshaghdali¹, Jerold C Alcantara¹, Gamal Mohamed Elawad Ahmed¹, Sara A Seifeldin¹, Emad Abboh Abdallah Abboh³, Waleed Mansi Al Shammari⁵, Fawzia Mutasim M Al Tayeeb⁵, Bandar S Al Saif⁵, Ali Ahmed Al Qahtani⁵, Samir Abdulkarim Alharbi⁶, Ibtihag Siddig Elnaem⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Laboratory, College of Applied Medical Sciences, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia.
² Consultant, Histopathology, King Khalid Hail Hospital, Hail, Saudi Arabia.
³ College of Medicine, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Histopathology and Cytology, FMLS, University of Khartoum, Sudan.
⁵ King Khalid Hail Hospital, Clinical Pathology Department, Hail, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ College of Dentistry, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Background: Appendectomy remains the most common emergency surgery. With the lack of literature from Saudi Arabia regarding the treatment for appendix disorders, this study aimed to identify the common motives for appendectomy in Northern Saudi Arabia.

Methodology: Data referring to be resected appendix patients who were diagnosed during the period from January 2018 to December 2018 were included in the present study. The diagnosis of the resected appendix was confirmed by conventional histopathology.

Results: The most common cause for the appendectomy was acute appendicitis followed by gangrenous perforated appendicitis, chronic appendicitis, and lymphoid hyperplasia, representing 85/129(66%), 33/129(26%), 8/129(6%), and 3/129(2%), in this order.

Conclusion: Appendectomy is a common procedure for the treatment of a large section of patients with appendicitis and appendicitis like clinical features. Acute appendicitis was the most motive for appendectomy followed by gangrenous perforated appendicitis in Northern Saudi Arabia.

Keywords: Saudi Arabia; appendicitis; appendix; lymphoid hyperplasia.