Assertion: appendectomy | /r/HasProperty | performed
Facets:
value: solely
type: MANNER
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: laparoscopically
type: MANNER
value: several weeks later
type: TEMPORAL
value: because of probable appendicitis
type: CAUSE
value: during this time
type: TEMPORAL
value: most often
type: DEGREE
value: during hospital stays in 2011
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Once a diagnosis of appendicitis is made, an appendectomy usually is performed.
text: About 327,000 appendectomies were performed during U.S. hospital stays in 2011, a rate of 10.5 procedures per 10,000 population.
text: Appendectomies are performed to treat appendicitis , an inflamed and infected appendix.
text: Since appendicitis occurs most commonly in males between the ages of 10-14 and in females between the ages of 15-19, appendectomy is most often performed during this time.
text: An appendectomy is performed because of probable appendicitis, inflammation of the wall of the appendix generally associated with infection.
text: Doctors might do what’s known as an “interval appendectomy” if a patient has a ruptured appendix: antibiotics are administered first, and once they successfully clear the infection, an appendectomy is performed several weeks later.
text: Choose the right standalone CPT code: If appendectomy was solely performed to remove the appendix, the relevant CPT codes are 44950, 44960 or 44970.
text: If appendectomy was solely performed to remove the appendix, the relevant CPT codes are 44950, 44960 or 44970.
text: In the future, this may lead those who examine the patient to assume that an appendectomy has already been performed, in which case they will not include appendicitis in the differential diagnosis.
text: An appendectomy is usually performed because your appendix has become infected or burst open.
text: Appendectomy may be performed laparoscopically or as an open operation.
text: And if appendicitis is promptly diagnosed and an appendectomy is performed, most kids recover quickly and with little difficulty.
text: Appendectomy should eventually be performed (unless comorbidities contraindicate elective surgery) to exclude an appendiceal neoplasm and prevent recurrent appendicitis.