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Hello lybrate-user!I am telling you in little details. Appendix is a bag like organ that is present in all humans but its non functional (vestigial). Now in some people, it becomes irritated due to the fact that undigested food may get stored and may have infection. In that case, it causes much pain. We have good medicines to decrease this pain and arrest this infection. Even surgery is there which has good outcomes. As I can't prescribe anything here, you can contact me in private chat for bett...more
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MBBS, MS - General Surgery, DNB, FNB - M...read more
Laparoscopic Surgeon•Mumbai
Laparoscopy is used to diagnose and treat a number of common ailments such as gallstones, appendicitis, hernias, ovarian cysts and endometriosis, among others. It is an advanced technique of performing surgery in which tiny incisions or cuts (3-12 mm in size) are made on the abdomen through which small tubes, surgical instruments and video cameras are used to do the operation.
Even though laparoscopy is a very popular form of surgery, there are quite a few myths associated with it, some...more
Even though laparoscopy is a very popular form of surgery, there are quite a few myths associated with it, some...more
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APPENDICITIS LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECECTOMY
APPENDICITIS is an inflammation of the appendix, a finger-shaped pouch that projects from your colon on the lower right side of your abdomen. The appendix doesn't seem to have a specific purpose. Appendicitis causes pain in lower right abdomen. However, in most people, pain begins around the navel and then moves. As inflammation worsens, appendicitis pain typically increases and eventually becomes severe. Although anyone can develop appendicitis,...more
APPENDICITIS is an inflammation of the appendix, a finger-shaped pouch that projects from your colon on the lower right side of your abdomen. The appendix doesn't seem to have a specific purpose. Appendicitis causes pain in lower right abdomen. However, in most people, pain begins around the navel and then moves. As inflammation worsens, appendicitis pain typically increases and eventually becomes severe. Although anyone can develop appendicitis,...more
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How to prepare for an appendectomy
Appendectomy is the medical term for the surgery that is performed to remove the inflamed appendix (a condition that is known as appendicitis). This surgical treatment is mostly performed on an emergency basis.
But before you move on to know how to prepare for the surgery, it's important why it is important to get a surgery for appendicitis done?
What exactly is appendicitis?
Appendicitis is a medical condition in which the a...more
Appendectomy is the medical term for the surgery that is performed to remove the inflamed appendix (a condition that is known as appendicitis). This surgical treatment is mostly performed on an emergency basis.
But before you move on to know how to prepare for the surgery, it's important why it is important to get a surgery for appendicitis done?
What exactly is appendicitis?
Appendicitis is a medical condition in which the a...more
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