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“Going through a natural orifice, the mouth or rectum or vagina, to get into the abdomen and do an operation, is being excitedly worked on by a whole lot of people,” Dr. Bessler said
Interest in this idea heightened after doctors from India made a video in 2004 showing an appendix being taken out through a patient’s mouth.
I'm seeing a whole new category of SAT questions:
#41. If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, the way to a woman's gallbladder is through:
a. her vagina
b. the state of Virginia
c. a pashmina
d. bananafanafofana ... Shirley!
My Ex had old-fashioned gallbladder surgery just a couple months before the laproscopic form became available. Big scar, lots of pain, long recovery and her emotional downward spiral started soon after (I long suspected it was partly caused by the pain pills reacting with the psych meds she was already on).
Not sure how this new procedure will make it better. When I had my Heart Failure, I was given an angiogram using an artery in my leg, then going all the way up to my heart. They found much less blockage than expected, otherwise, I'd have gotten an angioplasty procedure via the same route. I can just imagine the same doctors thinking "maybe we can do the angio-stuff through the urethra...". Yeah, send in the Urethra Weasels!
on preview, this is one of the most distrubing comments I've ever made here... on multiple levels
Well, if it works for hysterectomies, why not?
Scarring is more than an aesthetic concern, it can make the whole area of the body less mobile pretty much forever if it's bad enough. And, you have to figure, the less they chop you up, the less your chance of infection.
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