EVALUATION OF APPENDICITIS INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SCORE AND ALVARADO SCORE AS DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FOR ACUTE APPENDICITIS

Acute abdominal pain is a common complaint in the emergency department. Diagnostics of one of the most common pathologies behind acute abdominal pain, acute appendicitis, has radically changed over the last decades. There are several different diagnostic scores for suspected acute appendicitis. The Alvarado score being most widely known. Appendicitis Inflammatory Response (AIR) score was designed to overcome drawbacks of previous scores. This score incorporated the C-reactive protein value in its design and was developed and validated on a prospective cohort of patients with suspicion of acute appendicitis.