Chronic appendicitis surgery after three months, mainly because at this time the inflammation basically disappeared, is conducive to surgical operation and to avoid postoperative stump infection and septic perforation.
Chronic appendicitis through the regular anti-inflammatory treatment, three months after the inflammation basically disappeared, the appendix can basically return to the normal state, at this time is conducive to surgical operation. If the inflammation attack appendix surgical resection, due to the appendix swelling is more obvious, for surgical operation will cause some difficulty, so chronic appendicitis three months after the operation, can reduce the risk of surgery.
In addition, postoperative stump infection as well as septic perforation can be avoided. If you have chronic appendicitis, local edema will occur during the inflammatory attack, if you operate at this time, it is easy to cause infection of the appendiceal stump, which can lead to septic perforation in severe cases.
Chronic appendicitis should be treated with elective surgery, which is required to be performed 3 months after the inflammatory attack has disappeared after treatment, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the surgery.