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Title: Mystery of the Appendix
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URL Source: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/211078-Mystery-of-the-Appendix
Published: Jun 25, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-06-25 19:31:17 by James Deffenbach
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Tucson - Appendicitis is the most common reason for emergency general surgery, but what causes the appendix to inflame is a medical mystery. For more than a hundred years, it's been the routine medical treatment: the appendix gets inflamed, remove it. That practice has never been challenged until now. Research at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas questions whether emergency surgery is really necessary. "We have no idea what causes appendicitis. We have no idea why one morning, you might wake up and get appendicitis or not," said Dr. Edward Livingston. The surgeon got curious about this common disease after operating on a patient with a ruptured appendix. "He almost died from the disease and that really struck me because he was a young healthy person who shouldn't be ill at all." So Dr. Livingston poured over decades of hospital records, worked with an SMU economist on complex statistical methods and reached two conclusions: an inflamed appendix does not inevitably lead to a ruptured one, and a virus could be to blame for it all, setting up the possibility that antibiotics, not surgery is the best course. "We are proposing there are certain types of patients who don't need surgery, and we are about to embark on a clinical trial here to take patients who would otherwise get surgery and treat them with antibiotics alone and see how they do," he explained. Dr. Livingston put his theory into practice with his own son. The teenage boy awoke one morning with the signs and symptoms of appendicitis. "I do this research, and my wife and I are both doctors, and we said, 'Let's just wait and watch him and see what happens,' and by morning he was fine and three years later he still has his appendix." Livingston says colleagues support his work; many have questioned surgery but did it because that's the way it's always been. "It's the most common operation done and quite frankly, people make their living doing this, so I thought I would get slaughtered by my colleagues, but in point of fact, it's been enthusiastically received everywhere in groups of surgeons," he said. "If our study that we do this summer shows what we think it'll show, it'll be a game changer for how appendicitis is treated." In the meantime, Livingston suggests families seek medical advice with the new understanding that it may not be as big an emergency as previously believed.
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#1. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
Now if we could just get the same medical challenge to the addition of fluoride to our drinking water that would represent real progress.
_________________________________________________________________________ I guess they think they have to dispose of that poison somewhere. And where better than in the sheeple's water? After all, the elites can buy theirs purified without all that crap in it.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. Oddly enough, I was about 10 years old when I had the tell tale sympoms of Appendicitis, and my mom was worried I was going to get it removed. My doctor at the time told my mom to keep me home, and gave me a dose of Amoxicillin. Even though I was allergic to the stuff, my appendicitis went away within a day. I have the thing to this day. My doctor at the time seemed like a pretty bright and innovative guy. This of course was 30 years ago.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
Sounds like your doctor was either way ahead of his time or he (and you) got lucky.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.For more than a hundred years, it's been the routine medical treatment: the appendix gets inflamed, remove it. That practice has never been challenged until now.
Obama is the miscegenated bastard of a white communist whore. True story.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
Now if we could just get the same medical challenge to the addition of fluoride to our drinking water that would represent real progress.
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#3. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
#4. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#3)
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
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