Table 1 Etiology of peritonitis in relation to gender, age, and in-hospital mortality.
Diagnosis | Number | Male | Female | Mortality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Appendicitis | 42 (22%) | 30 (71%) | 12 (29%) | 2.4% (1/42) |
Intestinal Volvulus* | 32 (17%) | 30 (94%) | 2 (6.3%) | 9.4% (3/32) |
Perforated Peptic Ulcer†| 21 (11%) | 19 (90%) | 2 (9.5%) | 33% (7/21) |
Small Bowel Perforation | 20 (11%) | 15 (75%) | 3 (15%) | 15% (3/20) |
Solid Organ Rupture | 17 (8.9%) | 9 (53%) | 8 (47%) | 35% (6/17) |
Primary/Idiopathic | 15 (7.9%) | 8 (53%) | 7 (47%) | 27% (4/15) |
Ischemic Bowel‡ | 12 (6.3%) | 5 (42%) | 7 (58%) | 8.3% (1/12) |
Intussusception | 8 (4.2%) | 5 (63%) | 3 (38%) | 0% (0/8) |
Tubo-Ovarian Abscess | 5 (2.6%) | na | 5 (100%) | 20% (1/5) |
Bowel Obstruction | 5 (2.6%) | 1 (20%) | 4 (80%) | 0% (0/5) |
All Other§ | 13 (6.8%) | 9 (69%) | 4 (31%) | 15% (2/13) |
Total | 190 (100%) | 131 (69%) | 57 (30%) | 15% (28/190) |