For example, in cases of adhesive intestinal obstruction after multiple intestinal adhesions release, it is easy to recur and reappear after opening and releasing the adhesions; in cases of intestinal obstruction with recurrent abdominal cancer, extensive metastasis, dissemination or even ascites, surgeons are even more respectful of such patients, as the healing of the intestinal anastomosis cannot be guaranteed after opening. If the intestine does not grow well and fissures appear, leading to abdominal infection, the patient will definitely be in a dangerous situation. The above-mentioned patients with intestinal obstruction can only receive intravenous nutrition for a long time with a gastric tube in their nose and continuous outward suction, and the patients’ quality of life decreases and their desire to survive decreases.
In order to solve this surgical problem, Dr. Eigoro Yamauchi of Japan invented a peculiar treatment method, namely, the use of magnets to treat intestinal obstruction. The steps of the operation are as follows: first, the patient swallows the first penny-sized magnet, which follows the peristalsis of the stomach and intestines to the small intestine, and finally the magnet stays in the front of the obstruction; the doctor uses a colonoscope to hold the second piece of the same magnet from the patient’s anus into the large intestine, and the two magnets automatically adsorb to each other and overlap completely when they are close together; the intestinal wall between the two magnets is gradually After a week, the necrotic intestinal wall falls off to form a round hole, and the two magnets adsorbed together fall into the large intestine side of the round hole, and then the two magnets are discharged from the anus together; the appearance of the above round hole makes a new channel between the intestines before and after the obstruction, and the food in the small intestine selects this new channel and enters the large intestine directly, bypassing the original obstruction. The intestinal obstruction was lifted, and the patient resumed normal feeding.
With this method, Dr. Yamauchi has cured hundreds of patients with intestinal obstruction who had been refused surgery by surgeons, and the cure rate of this new treatment is almost 100%. In order to expand the indications of this treatment method, Dr. Yamauchi fitted the magnet with a guidewire through which the surgeon can manipulate the course and direction of the magnet; patients with pancreatic pseudocysts or bile-intestinal anastomoses that are narrow or occluded, after skin puncture and dilation to establish a channel, this magnet with a guidewire is placed in the cavity of the pancreatic pseudocyst or on both sides of the bile-intestinal anastomosis, and these patients are also able to avoid These patients can also avoid open surgery. By placing a circular magnet in the dilated distal esophagus and the same magnet on the proximal side, Dr. Yamauchi cured a child with a narrow, inoperable congenital esophageal atresia by means of a magnet compression anastomosis. Dr. Yamauchi’s invention was like magic, spooky and unbelievable. This new, revolutionary, breakthrough magnet compression anastomosis has given new life to some patients who could not be cured by conventional surgery; it is a minimally invasive treatment and the cost of treatment is far less than conventional treatment.
The Japanese government has now made magnet compression anastomosis an official treatment modality. By introducing this treatment modality to China, it is hoped that Chinese patients will benefit from the advances in world medicine. The author himself has studied systematically under Dr. Yamauchi, and the hospital’s general surgery department, which is known for its minimally invasive treatment, has a long and close association with Dr. Yamauchi, which is currently the only hospital in China that can perform this work at Peking University Shougang Hospital.