Trials / Terminated
TerminatedNCT01853683
Is Interval Appendectomy Necessary?
Interval Appendectomy in Children, is it Really Necessary? A Randomized, Noninferiority Trial
- Status
- Terminated
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 5 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Appendicitis is one of the most common surgical problems in children, with 20-35% of patients having perforated by the time they present to a doctor. In these cases, the patient is often treated non-surgically with antibiotics. Once a patient has improved, it is not known whether it is better to perform an interval appendectomy (IA) or to continue a watchful waiting approach. The purpose of this trial is to determine if expectant nonoperative management (watchful waiting) is not inferior compared to IA management after successful conservative treatment of appendiceal mass at admission.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | Conservative Management | |
| PROCEDURE | Operative Management |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2016-04-01
- Completion
- 2016-04-01
- First posted
- 2013-05-15
- Last updated
- 2016-11-10
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Canada
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01853683. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.