Is it possible for an appendix to rupture and then seemingly disappear?Our daughter has been in the hospital for 4 weeks,with an infection in her bloodstream,gallbladder and kidneys.The doctors have been unable to determine why her abdomen keeps filling up with purulent drainage,that they have removed by syringe 5 times,until today they took her to operating room and thru a 6 inch incision removed over a gallon of infectious fluid.The surgeon says he cannot find any reason for this infection,except he could not find her appendix.Before she got sick 4 weeks ago she was a very healthy 26 year old,2 weeks from graduating college.She now has 2 drain tubes in her abdomen and a NG tube.Please advise.Thank you
Hi.for your first question, yes, it is possible for the course of ruptured appendix to be of increasing intensity at first, when it comes to signs and symptomatologic (occurrence of abdominal pain, fever, leukocytosis), then it seemingly disappears.  Chat Doctor.