Vaginal Appendectomy: The New Frontier?
Larrian on April 1st, 2008 | Filed under Crunchy Bytes, Women's Health
Docs were all smiles at UCSD in California after completing the first laparoscopic appendectomy through the vagina. I know…it takes so little to make some people happy! Is this really news? Well…yes and no. The team claims to have done the FIRST vaginal appendectomy, but I guess they weren’t at UCLA when we did one way back when I was in training in the 70’s, and even then it wasn’t “new”. What is new is the instrumentation and the reported minimal amount of post-operative pain by the patient - a post-graduate chemistry student.
Novare Surgical developed the instruments for NOTES (Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery) which uses the flexible ureteroscope by Olympus for viewing inside the abdomen through the standard umbilical incision. “The UC San Diego Center for the Future of Surgery is investigating and refining techniques that are rapidly transforming the world of surgery,” said Mark A. Talamini, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Surgery, who incidentally, will assume the position of President of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES). Guess men will just have to take NOTES about all this.
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