Appendicitis: Complications

The following are the most important diseases or complications that can be caused by appendicitis (appendicitis):

Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach, and intestines (K00-K67; K90-93).

Caution.

A high rate of perforation is expected in infancy, due to diagnostic difficulties and rapid progression:

  • 50% in the second and until the third year of life!
  • 20-30% until the fifth year of life
  • 10% from the fifth year of life

Prognostic factors

  • Children with IgE-mediated allergies were three times less likely than other children to suffer complications from acute appendicitis (19.6% versus 46.9%; adjusted odds ratio of 0.33, which was highly significant with a 95% confidence interval of 0.18 to 0.59)