Posted on 03/19/2008 9:15:10 AM PDT by CapnJack
A German retiree is taking a hospital to court after she went in for a leg operation and got a new anus instead, the Daily Telegraph is reporting.
The woman woke up to find she had been mixed up with another patient suffering from incontinence who was to have surgery on her sphincter.
The clinic in Hochfranken, Bavaria, has since suspended the surgical team.
Now the woman is planning to sue the hospital. She still needs the leg operation and is searching for another hospital to do it.
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The first question is why the operator did not stick his finger in her rectum and feel "tone". Ususally with rectal incontinence there is essentially no tone to the 'feel' on digital exam. It is true that if she had a spinal or epidural or a paralytic agent this exam may not be informative.
The way you reconstruct new "anus" is to access and mobilize the muscle (anal sphinctor) and sew the ends together (Theirsch Operation). This is done mostly after the anus is torn at childbirth. A perineorraphy is another method for chronicity of the anterior asoect if the anus. There are several other designed proceedures.
For exatremely difficult problems there is a very difficult proceedure where the gracilis muscle is mobilized from the posterior aspect of the leg, preserving blood supply and innervation, and 'threaded in the region where the anus was located. This proceedure is for loss of the rectum, usually due to cancer or radiation injury to the rectum.
I suspect this woman had a problem which went unrecognized after childbirth, and had a Theirsch or perhaps a sphinctorrhaphy of some type. We cannot know from the information presented.
What we can determine is that she now will own the doctor and hospital.
I had something similar happen to me once. The show I was working on was supposed to be getting a new producer, but instead....
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She can’t sue the hospital.....she doesn’t have a leg to stand on!
Who’da thunk FR would have its own expert on anal surgery....?
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Geez, I scrubbed on one of those when I was a fourth year med student. In addition to having to stand there holding retractors for 5 hours, I kept feeling that I was watching a Frankenstein movie.
Generally we do not give the anal sphinctor the respect it deserves.
“Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-ow-oo!”
Reminds me of an old Monty Python sketch from the 70s:
Man A: “Have you read the newspaper? Nixon’s had an asshole transplant”
Man B: “Ah, but have you read the stop press? the asshole’s rejected him”
What do you think of the sphincter as a whole?
It was last seen marching in San Francisco, wearing a pink shirt & hat.
Well, her sphinctor ain't haphy.
The hemipelvectomy is extraordinary in its applied trauma also.
Taylor Rain?
Seriously, stop! You are right, but I now have the giggles.
What happened to the lady that was supposed to get the new anus? Did she get a new leg?
maybe her old anus got a new person?
Because this is a [Ur]anus thread....
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