| Abstrakt: |
During the year 1900 there were operated upon at the German Hospital, Philadelphia, 268 cases of appendicitis, of which number 144 were acute attacks of the disease and 124 were chronic. Of those operated upon during the acute stage of the disease, 26, or 17.8 per cent., died, either from the disease or from some intercurrent trouble arising during the illness, or existing prior to the time of operation. One of the patients who had diabetes mellitus, and in whom the existing abscess was simply drained under local anesthesia, died of diabetic coma three days after operation. Another case had advanced phthisis at the time of the operation and died of peritonitis. Still another case developed a post-operative pneumonia, from which he died on the second day following operation. If we deduct these three cases, the mortality of this series of cases is 15.9 per cent. for acute appendicitis without |
