@Lauren Of Emerald City posted:Soooo COOOL!!! Did you check out that website??? It has the month and day of the first J-pouch surgery from Sir Alan Parks
Yeah, I did thanks.
Although I’m sure the Parks’ Pouch was first performed earlier than 1978.
I believe the reference to 1978 is when the procedure and the associated study was shared with the medical profession within a medical journal.
I’ve been searching the internet to find the original medical article I read when I first became aware of the J pouch but although it’s such a phenomenal procedure, which has not only transformed surgical practice but also the lives of those suffering from UC; there appears to be very little available; and what I do find, appears to be reworkings of the same paper.