A clinical prediction model for complicated appendicitis in children younger than five years of age
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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A clinical prediction model for complicated appendicitis in children younger than five years of age Wei Feng1, Xu-Feng Zhao1, Miao-Miao Li2 and Hua-Lei Cui2*
Abstract Background: No reliably specific method for complicated appendicitis has been identified in children younger than five years of age. This study aimed to analyze the independent factors for complicated appendicitis in children younger than five years of age, develop and validate a prediction model for the differentiation of simple and complicated appendicitis. Methods: A retrospective study of 382 children younger than five years of age with acute appendicitis from January 2007 to December 2016 was conducted with assessments of demographic data, clinical symptoms and signs, and pre-operative laboratory results. According to intraoperative findings and postoperative pathological results, acute appendicitis was divided into simple and complicated appendicitis. Univariate and multivariate analyses were used to screen out the independent factors of complicated appendicitis, and develop a prediction model for complicated appendicitis. Then 156 such patients from January 2017 to December 2019 were collected as validation sample to validate the prediction model. Test performance of the prediction model was compared with the ALVARADO score and Pediatric Appendicitis Score (PAS). Results: Of the 382 patients, 244 (63.9%) had complicated appendicitis. Age, white blood cell count, and duration of symptoms were the independent factors for complicated appendicitis in children younger than five years of age. The final predication model for complicated appendicitis included factors above. In validation sample, the prediction model exhibited a high degree of discrimination (area under the curve [AUC]: 0.830; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.762–0.885) corresponding to a optimal cutoff value of 0.62, and outperformed the PAS (AUC: 0.735; 95% CI: 0.658–0.802), ALVARADO score (AUC: 0.733; 95% CI: 0.657–0.801). Conclusion: Age, white blood cell count, and duration of symptoms could be used to predict complicated appendicitis in children younger than five years of age with acute appendicitis. The prediction model is a novel but promising method that aids in the differentiation of acute simple and complicated appendicitis. Keywords: Acute appendicitis, Complicated appendicitis, Children, Pre-school age
Background Acute appendicitis (AA) is the most common surgical disease in children, and its incidence is reported to be * Correspondence: [email protected] 2 Department of Pediatric Surgery, Tianjin Children’s Hospital, Tianjin 300134, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
increasing [1]. The diagnosis of acute appendicitis has classic clinical appearance only in one third of all patients. Clinical appearance in the in the patients younger than five years of age is often atypical, and misdiagnosis in this age group is not rare, which can lead to an increased rate of perforation [2]. Clinical presentation, A
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