Summary: 1  Energy is not recycled. 2  Energy is lost from the ecosystem in the form of heat through cell respiration. 3  Nutrients must be recycled as there is only a limited supply of them.  They are absorbed by the environment, used by organisms and then returned to the environment.
I had no symptoms at all of appendicitis, none. No pain, no fever, and no diarrhea. As far as I was concerned I was a healthy patient. I had kidney pain on my left side and had a CT scan looking for kidney stones, no stones were found but they did find an inflamed appendix. After consulting with my surgeon I had it removed, started with laparoscopy but the appendix was so swollen they couldn't stitch me back up well.
in the control group who did not have appendicitis at 6-months follow-up. However, the other patient moved and was lost to follow-up. Original CT reports identifying children with an appendicolith were correlated with the discharge di-agnosis of appendicitis or no appendicitis by chart review. All CT scans of patients with an appendi-