Swedish doctors have learned to remove the system through the mouth

In Sweden, the first in Europe, surgery to remove the system through the mouth. According to doctors, the 30-year-old woman in good health and has now been discharged from hospital. The unusual operation was on 14 February done in a Swedish hospital Östra Sjukhuset in Gothenburg. After the surgeon Per-Ola Park (Per Ola Park), appendectomy went well, even better than expected. In the near future, the Swedish doctors are planning to spend more than 30 such operations. The so-called transgastralnaya surgery to remove the system is based on the introduction of flexible endoscopic instruments through the mouth into the stomach. From there, a small puncture instruments into the abdominal cavity, is inserted where the need to remove the inflamed appendix. Remote organ extracted the same way. Advantage of the new technology is the absence of scars on the body and shorten recovery time - such an operation, the patient suffered a more rapid return to active life. It also reduces the risk of infectious complications. According to some experts, such operations are humane and less costly than the traditional. Previously, surgery to the system through the mouth to remove made only in India and the U.S..