Pregnancy and appendicitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis on the clinical use of MRI in diagnosis of appendicitis in pregnant women

Kave, Mania; Parooie, Fateme; Salarzaei, Morteza

doi:10.1186/s13017-019-0254-1

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Table 1 Summary of included studies

From: Pregnancy and appendicitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis on the clinical use of MRI in diagnosis of appendicitis in pregnant women

Author	Year	Country/province	Sampling method	Study design	Study duration	Setting	Mode of data collection	Participants	Age mean ± SD or range	Study population	Image interpretation
Theileu [64]	2014	USA	Convenience	Retrospective	2007–2012	Hospital	Interview	171	–	Pregnant women with suspected appendicitis	Board-certified attending
Ramaling am [65]	2015	USA	Convenience	Retropprospective	2007–2012	Hospital	Interview	102	16–41	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Fellowship radiologist trained in body MRI
Bichard [66]	2005	USA		Prospective	2002–2004	Hospital	Interview	29	–	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Fellowship radiologist trained in body MRI
Fonseca [67]	2014	USA	Convenience	Retrospective	2000–2011	Hospital	Interview	31	–	Pregnant women suspected for appendicitis	Attending radiologist
Isra [68]	2008	USA	Convenience	Retroprospective	2004–2006	Hospital	Interview	33	18–36	Pregnant women suspected for appendicitis	Attending radiologist
Rap [69]	2013	USA	Convenience	Retroprospective	1996–2011	Hospital	Interview	212	–	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Trained abdominal radiologist
Jang [70]	2011	South Korea	Convenience	Retroprospesctive	2008–2010	Hospital	Interview	18	–	Pregnant patients with acute appendicitis	Experienced gastrointestinal radiologist
Masselli [71]	2011	Italy	purposive	prospective	2006-2010	Hospital	Interview	40	20-35	pregnant patients with acute Abdominal and pelvic pain	Experienced radiologist in body MRI
Vu [72]	2009	Canada	Purposive	Retroprospective	2004–2008	Hospital	Interview	19	22–39	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Radiologist reponsible for reviewing abdominal MRI
Pedrosu [73]	2009	USA	Purposive	Retropresctive	2002–2007	Hospital	Medical records	148	15–42	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Fellowship trained attending radiologist
Oto [74]	2009	USA	Purposive	Retropresctive	2001–2007	Hospital	Hospital	118	18–40	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal and pelvic pain	Radiologist with subspecialty in abdominal MRI
Cobben [75]	2004	The Netherlands	Purposive	Presctive	2000–2003	Hospital	Interview	12	18–34	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Radiologist experienced in abdominal MRI
Aguilera [76]	2016	USA	Purposive	Retropresctive	2000–2011	Hospital	Interview	52	–	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Attending radiologist
Konrad [77]	2015	USA	Convenience	Retrospective	2009–2011	Hospital	Interview	140	–	Pregnant patients with suspected acute appendicitis	Attending radiologist
Sungah [78]	2016	South Korea	Convenience	Retrospective	2014-2016	Hospital	Interview	125	–	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Experienced radiologist
Kereshi [79]	2017	USA	Convenience	Retrospective	2010–2015	Hospital	Interview	204	17–47	Pregnant women with suspected appendicitis	Radiology fellow or abdominal imaging attend
Lauren M [80]	2015	USA	Convenience	Retrospective	2009–2014	Hospital	Interview	709	16–46	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Board-certified fellowship-trained abdominal radiologist
Richard [81]	2017	USA	Convenience	Retrospective	2007–2012	Hospital	Interview	223	–	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	MRI fellows on any given day
Darshan [82]	2017	Canada	Purposive	Retrospective	2008–2015	Hospital	Interview	42	17–39	Pregnant patients with acute abdominal pain	Fellowship trained in body MRI

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