My watch list
my.bionity.com  
Login  

Alvarado score



The Alvarado score is a clinical scoring system used in the diagnosis of appendicitis. The score has 6 clinical items and 1 laboratory measurement which total 9 points.

Contents

The score

A score of less than 5 is not likely appendicitis, 5 or 6 is equivocal, 7 or 8 is probably appendicitis and 9 points means that the patient is highly likely to have appendicitis.

Complementary value

The Alvarado score has a very low sensitivity and a low specificity, especially in women who can have gynecological diseases mimicking appendicitis. The score has been modified to try and find adapted scores with higher clinical importance. Trials have studied the usefulness for the score in guiding the management of patients with pain in the right fossa, for example to see which patients need a CT scan and which patients need surgery.

See also

References

McKay R, Shepherd J. The use of the clinical scoring system by Alvarado in the decision to perform computed tomography for acute appendicitis in the ED. Am J Emerg Med 2007; 25(5): 489-93. PMID 17543650

 
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Alvarado_score". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
Your browser is not current. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 does not support some functions on Chemie.DE