Acute appendicitis before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based cohort study
Florin Iordache, Jessica Lazar, Catalin Baraian, Tiberiu Giumba, Roberto Bergamaschi · 2026
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Description
Florin Iordache, Jessica Lazar, Catalin Baraian, Tiberiu Giumba, and Roberto Bergamaschi track how the pandemic years changed appendicitis care at one big-city emergency hospital. Their 2026 cohort study covers 1,721 adults from 2018 to 2023, split into before, during, and after COVID-19 periods. The hospital's catchment, surgeon count, and scan volume stayed broadly stable across the span.
Fewer patients arrived during the pandemic, and a larger share came with complicated disease. Yet complication and death rates did not differ between periods, and hospital stays held steady even as keyhole surgery rose. Tumor findings in removed appendixes ran near two percent in the later periods. Colonoscopy volume, by contrast, dipped sharply mid-pandemic and recovered after. The authors read the appendix story as strain without collapse.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Florin Iordache, Jessica Lazar, Catalin Baraian, Tiberiu Giumba, Roberto Bergamaschi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |