Efficacy comparison of ERAT versus LA for treating fecalith incarceration appendicitis:a meta-analysis
Objective To adopt the systematical evaluation method to compare the efficacies between endoscopic retrograde appendicitis therapy (ERAT) versus laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) for treating feca-lith incarceration appendicitis.Methods The databases of PubMed,WANGFANG,CNKI,Cochrane Library and Embase were retrieved by computer.The retrieval time was 2016-2021.The EART related clinical trials were collected,the literatures conforming to the inclusion standard conducted the Jadad scoring,the basic situ-ation of each study and various observation indications (abdominal pain relief,time in bed,hospitalization du-ration,hospitalization expenses,postoperative CRP,postoperative complications) in the ERAT group and LA group were extracted respectively.The RevMan 5.3 software was used for conducting the statistical analysis. Results A total of 33 trials with a total of 2630 patients were included.There were 1294 cases in the ERAT group and 1336 cases in the LA group.The meta analysis results showed that the remission rate of abdominal pain at postoperative 12 h (RR=1.23,95%CI:1.06-1.43),time in bed (with d or h as the unit,WMD=-3.00,95%CI:-3.93 to-2.07;WMD=-9.51,95%CI:-16.12 to-2.90),hospitalization duration (WMD=-2.44,95%CI:-2.90 to-1.98),treatment costs (WMD=-3.00,95%CI:-5.34 to-0.67),postoperative CRP (WMD=-4.94,95%CI:-7.43 to-2.45) and postoperative complications incidence rate (RR=0.24,95%CI:0.18-0.32) had statistical difference between the two groups (P<0.05).Conclu-sion ERAT has more advantages than LA in treating fecalith incarceration appendicitis.