Clinical features of acute appendicitis in infants
Infants with acute appendicitis have a particularly high mortality rate from acute appendicitis that is partly attributable to their non-specific presentation and hence an increased amount of time for perforation to occur:
- abdominal pain not always present
- irritability
- marked pyrexia
- tachycardia
- vomiting
- local abdominal tenderness
- diarrhoea
Such symptoms and signs may be attributed to concomitant and possibly pathogenetic gastroenteritis, respiratory infections of exanthemata.
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