Need Your Appendix Out? Let Me Reach Down Your Throat

Need Your Appendix Out? Let Me Reach Down Your Throat
Researchers test ways to remove diseased organs through the body's natural openings. Transcript of radio broadcast:
13 May 2008

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.

Medical researchers keep looking for less invasive ways to perform operations. The aim is to cut less and to reduce pain and recovery time. Some researchers see a future in NOTES.

NOTES is short for Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery.

In simple terms, what this means is the removal of diseased organs through the body's natural openings. For example, a man in California recently had his appendix removed through his mouth.

Twenty-five years ago, having your appendix removed meant staying in the hospital for as long as a week. Patients returned home with an ugly and permanent scar on their abdomen.

But since the late nineteen eighties, laparoscopic surgery has gained popularity. It leaves only small marks where holes were made in the skin. The doctor works with a system called a laparoscope, usually connected to a video camera. Laparoscopic surgery rarely requires a hospital stay.

With the newest kind of surgery, doctors make a small cut in the patient's belly button. A camera is placed through the hole to help guide the surgical instrument.

The operation at the University of California San Diego Medical Center in March lasted three hours. It was done as part of a study to test new methods of minimally invasive surgery. Santiago Horgan, director of UC San Diego's Center for the Future of Surgery, led the medical team.

Doctors used a long robotic tube to pass the instrument down the patient's throat. Then they made a cut in the wall of the stomach. The cut was made to pass the instrument through to the appendix for removal.

The researchers said they believed it was the country's first removal of a diseased appendix through the mouth. They said India was the only other country to report such an operation.

The patient in California, named Jeff Scholz, said he recovered quickly and with little pain.

But some doctors say they are not sure this kind of surgery is worth the possible risks. They say stomach fluids could leak if the hole in the stomach wall is not closed completely. A mistake, they say, could be life-threatening.

The surgical method is still being studied to see if it is better than traditional surgeries.

And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Brianna Blake. Archives of transcripts and MP3s of our reports can be found at voaspialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.

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需要您的附录呢？让我达到你的喉咙
研究人员测试的方法，以消除病变的器官，通过人体的自然开口。全文电台广播：
2008年5月13日

，这是美国之音特别英语卫生报告。

医学研究人员继续找寻少侵入性的方法执行操作。其目的是削减不足，并减轻疼痛和恢复时间。一些研究人员看到未来在笔记。

债券是短期的自然孔口translumenal内窥镜手术。

简单来说，这意味着什么是去除病变的器官，通过人体的自然开口。举例来说，一名男子在加利福尼亚州最近他的附录中删除通过他的嘴。

二十五年前，您的附录中删除的意思留在医院，只要一个星期。病人回家后与一丑陋的和永久的疤痕就其腹部。

但后期以来的19八十年代，腹腔镜手术已获得人气。它叶片，只有小马克的地方洞发了言，在皮肤上。医生工程与系统称为腹腔镜手术，通常是连接到一部摄录机。腹腔镜手术治疗，很少需要住院。

与最新的种手术，医生作小切口，在病人的腹部按钮。相机是放在通过孔，以帮助指导手术器械。

运作在美国加州大学圣迭戈医学中心在3月持续了三个小时。这是做研究的一部分，以测试新方法的微创手术治疗。圣地亚哥霍根主任，市政局圣迭戈的中心，为未来的外科手术，率领医疗队。

医生使用一个长期的机器人管通过的文书下来，病人的喉咙。然后，他们提出了削减在墙上的胃。削减了通过仪器通过向附录，以供搬迁。

研究人员说，他们认为，这是该国的第一搬迁一个患病的附录通过口。他们说，印度是唯一的其他国家的报告等操作。

病人在加利福尼亚州，名为杰夫scholz他说，恢复快和几乎没有疼痛。

但有些医生说，他们不知道这种手术是值得的可能出现的风险。他们说，胃的液体可以渗漏，如果孔，在胃壁是不完全封闭。弄错了，他们说，可危及生命。

手术方法是尚在研究，看看是否是优于传统的手术。

这是该美国之音特别英语卫生报告，书面，由brianna布雷克。档案誊本的MP3和我们的报告可以发现，在voaspialenglish.com 。我史蒂夫ember 。