Why do we have now an appendix?
I’ll persuade you on this video that the appendix is a badass little organ.
As a surgeon one of the widespread operations I do each week is a laparoscopic appendectomy…eradicating a baby’s appendix.
Fairly often I am requested the questions…why do we have now an appendix? What’s the appendix? What does the appendix do?
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Incorrectly many individuals suppose the appendix is only a left over, that it has no perform or that it has no objective.
Improper.
The appendix DOES have a perform, each an immune perform and a digestive perform.
For instance, the appendix sees little feces and is a storage warehouse for wholesome commensal bacterial. After a diarrhoeal sickness the appendix helps us repopulate the microbiome.
The appendix has a major immune perform with secretory IgA and IgG and helps create a wholesome biofilm within the colon.
So do not simply chop out the appendix to cut it out!
We’ll cowl a couple of scientific circumstances as nicely and on the backside of the outline I will put the solutions so you possibly can verify your self!
Try these AMAZING timestamps and quick ahead if you must:
Begin 00:00
What’s the appendix? 01:11
What’s the histology of the appendix? 03:33
Why do we have now an appendix? 04:30
The appendix and biofilm 10:39
The appendix and illness 14:18
REFERENCES
Immune perform of the appendix – Kook et al https://citizensurgeon.co/immuneappendix
Sabiston Textbook of Surgical procedure https://citizensurgeon.co/Sabiston
Cope’s Analysis of the Acute Stomach https://citizensurgeon.co/Cope
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