Features of diagnosis and course of acute appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic

This article provides a brief description of acute appendicitis, methods of its diagnosis, discusses typical clinical cases, examples of tactics for managing patients with acute appendicitis. The sequence of management of a patient with acute appendicitis, steps to a speedy recovery of the patient, including surgical interventions, his discharge with positive dynamics are summarized. Special attention is paid to the course and further development of complications of acute appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for timely treatment of the population for medical care is emphasized in order to avoid the development of complications (in particular, from acute conditions), for a qualitatively better prognosis and a speedy recovery in the postoperative period.

Aim of the research: to identify possible complications and course of appendicitis in a pandemic coronavirus infection.

Objectives: to study and analyze clinical cases in patients with appendicitis during a pandemic coronavirus infection.

Materials and methods: clinical cases, case histories, educational literature.

Conclusions: the course of acute appendicitis was accompanied by various complications that developed due to untimely medical care, due to the huge burden on the sphere of health protection of the Russian Federation. There was a tendency for the transition of acute appendicitis to peritonitis, abscess of the stump of the appendix, pilefl ebitis, due to coronavirus infection. Pathological activity of the immune system was also revealed in patients with appendicitis (lymphatic infi ltration of appendix tissues).

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