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Table 5 Reports of appendicitis requiring EAS after solid organ transplantation

From: Emergency abdominal surgery after solid organ transplantation: a systematic review

 

Transplanted Organ (n)

EAS characteristics and outcomes

Authors, Year

Liver

Heart

Lung

Kidney

Pancreas

Small Bowel

Patients undergoing EAS (n)

EAS Rate %

Morbidity [n (%)]

Mortality [n (%)]

Timrott K et al., 2014 [24]

 

342

    

2

0.58

n/a

n/a

Miller CB et al., 2006 [41]

  

229

   

2

0.87

n/a

0 (0)

Abt PL et al., 2005 [45]

n/a

     

7

n/a

2 (28.6)

0 (0)

Savar A et al., 2005 [46]

3287

1336

231

3053

6

10

17

0.21

4 (23.5)

0 (0)

Karakayali H et al., 2002 [32]

   

1038

  

5

0.48

n/a

0 (0)

Hoekstra HJ et al., 2001 [18]

  

125

   

2

1.6

n/a

0 (0)

Sharma S et al., 1996 [23]

 

240

    

1

0.42

n/a

0 (0)

Total

3287a

1918

585

4091

6

10

36

0.29a

n/a

0 (0)

  1. aexcluding Abt PL et al.’s study for lack of the number of recipients; EAS emergency abdominal surgery, n/a not available