5 CONCLUSIONS
Elderly patients with abdominal pain present to hospitals later due to
the obscurity of their symptoms and signs. The high rates of
comorbidities in the elderly also lead to more complicated appendicitis.
This results in an increased rate of postoperative complications and
longer hospital stay. The USG and CT modalities used for diagnosis have
almost the same, or sometimes even lower sensitivity and specificity
values compared to the laboratory parameters examined here. Preoperative
WBC, neutrophil, NLR, MPV, CRP, and direct and total bilirubin levels
can be used in the diagnosis of AA in elderly patients. Again, NLR, PLR,
RDW, CRP, and direct and total bilirubin levels can be used to determine
the complications in appendicitis.