@Lauren Of Emerald City posted:Thank-you for being so nice
. I understand fully. And thank-you for seeing I was speaking because I care. I hope everything works out though. I see the J-pouch was invented at the hospital you mentioned by, "Sir Alan Parks" around 1978. Thank goodness for him!!! Because a ostomy failed me- I see he won quite a few awards too. I know the year but do you know what month he did it in???
I don’t know what month.
I believe, during 1976, Dr. Alan Parks combined three previously performed procedures into one and came up with the W Pouch; the outcome of which was first published in a medical journal during 1978.
Prof John Nicholls, also at St. Marks Hospital, continued to develop and perfect the procedure, which I assume transpired into what we now know as the J Pouch.
However, Dr. Rudolf Nissen performed some kind of Pouch surgery as early as the 1930’s,
Developments of such a procedure continued throughout the 1940’s, 50 and 60’s; with the creation of the the Kock Pouch by the late 1960’s.