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Dr. Anne C. Fischer, M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric)
Dr. Anne Fischer practices Pediatric Surgery in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Fischer treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Fischerdiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
34 years
Experience
Dr. Anne C. Fischer, M.D.
- Baltimore, MD
- Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md
- Accepting new patients
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At what point should you go to ER for back pain?
For sure. Numbness, weakness, loss of bowel/bladder function, falling or difficult ambulating.
Can an appendix burst put you in the hospital?
Yes, an appendix can rupture, burst or perforate - all those verbs really describe the same problem of the appendix then dripping out fluid that is similar to liquid stool. So, READ MORE
Yes, an appendix can rupture, burst or perforate - all those verbs really describe the same problem of the appendix then dripping out fluid that is similar to liquid stool. So, one can become very sick, and have a fever and feel truly terrible and need hospitalization for IV antibiotics, and IV fluids since often one is so sick you cannot eat. So then the fluid needs to be drained by interventional radiology or by the surgeon during your hospital stay.
Why does my son feel abdominal pain weeks later?
Your son could feel pain later after an appendectomy for several reasons. First, the sources of pain differ given the time frame postoperatively. If the pain occurs within days READ MORE
Your son could feel pain later after an appendectomy for several reasons. First, the sources of pain differ given the time frame postoperatively. If the pain occurs within days of his/her surgery, it can be due to incisional postoperative pain from stretching of abdominal wall and abdominal wall muscles and/or the residual effects of infusing gas in the abdomen if he/she underwent laparoscopic appendectomy. If the period of time is from 1-3 weeks, he may be feeling the pain from healing (inflammatory effects of healing and scar tissue) and he may feel pain or actually only notice it with deep breathing or exercise such as catching his breath. This source of pain can be from the inflammation from scarring as he heals, and some pain maybe neurogeneic since cutaneous sensory nerves are divided with an incision (usually more prominent with open surgery than laparoscopic).
