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Digestive & GastrointestinalSevere
Appendicitis
General Surgery · Digestive & Gastrointestinal
Severe
Severity
Common — affects roughly 7-8% of people at some point in their lifetime, most frequently between ages 10 and 30
Prevalence
No
Contagious
General Surgery
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Most commonly caused by obstruction of the appendix opening by hardened stool (fecalith)
- 2swollen lymphoid tissue following a viral infection
- 3or rarely a tumor or parasite. The blockage leads to increased pressure
- 4impaired blood flow
- 5and bacterial invasion of the appendix wall
- 6causing inflammation and infection. It can occur at any age but is most frequent between ages 10 and 30.
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