ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of the prophylactic appendectomy acComplished during cesarean section about postoperative morbidity. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Fifty-nine patients with pregnancy at term and had a cesarean section were randomized in two groups: Group I: Twenty-nine patients subjected to cesarean section as well as prophylactic appendectomy with invaginant technic and Group II: Thirty patients subjected just to cesarean section. The analyzed variables were: surgical time, hospitable stay and postoperative morbidity. RESULTS: Surgical time were similar between two groups (means: 56.75 min vs. 53.96 min to group I and II). The means of the hospitable stay was 29.98 hours (SD +/- I 1.81) and 27.72 hours (SD +/- 6.91) to Group I and II respectively, without significant differences statisTIcally between the groups. There were no postoperative morbidity in any group. CONCLUSIONS: Cesarean section plus prophylactic appendectomy with invaginant technic is an easy and safe procedure to be performed. It does not produce postoperative morbidity, besides it does not increase surgical time and hospitable stay.
