Appendix Operations Could be Abandoned.

Experts have called for routine appendectomies to be abandoned after a study showed treating appendicitis with antibiotics works just as well.
The current operation call an appendectomy is carried out around 70,000 times a year when the appendix, part of the digestive tract become infected,

If left untreated, the condition can be fatal.

Swift removal has been the standard treatment for more than a century.

But that could change after doctors experimented with treating the condition with antibiotics instead, and discovered only complex cases should require surgery.

The results of the trial, published last night in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found the majority of patients who were treated with antibiotics did not require a later operation.