Another piece of sadness seemed to be a thing of the past about the anatomy of the human being. Crescent (Latinmesenterium), i.e. the membrane lining the abdominal cavity, so far dismissed, "promoted" to the rank of the organ.
Encyclopedic publications have not devoted much attention to the frill yet, only posting laconic information. Entries devoted to her entries were limited to a single-sentence message, characterized by mesentery, as a double peritoneal plaque containing blood vessels on which abdominal organs are suspended, including intestines, stomach, ovaries, fallopian tubes. There were and a bit wider descriptions. According to one of them, the mesentery is a connective tissue supporting and stabilizing the internal organs of the abdominal cavity forming the digestive tract, including blood vessels and elements of the nervous, excretory and reproductive systems. This membrane is formed by a double plaque lining the abdominal cavity, blood vessels, nerves, vessels and lymph nodes between the plaques.
Leonardo began
Leonardo da Vinci reported the first mesentery, in 1885 an English surgeon, Frederick Treves, specializing in abdominal surgery, made an anatomical description of it (Treves was a personal surgeon of King Edward VII, he also became famous for Joseph Merrick, known as a man - an elephant due to deformation of the body).
The fact that the mesentery existed for over a century after Treves' anatomical description was not of much importance to doctors. She was dismissed, no role was attributed to her. It was thought that it consists of many different elements, and therefore that it has a fragmented structure.
Uniform, separate organ
That it is otherwise proved by prof. J. Calvin Coffey from the University of Limerick in Ireland. He started to study the mezzy in 2012, recently, because at the end of 2016 their results were announced in the prestigious journal "The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology". As part of the research of prof. Coffey and his team agreed that the mesentery is a unified, separate organ.
What are the consequences of this discovery? Specialists suggest that it can help in understanding abdominal pathology and in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal and abdominal diseases. It may result in less invasiveness of the procedures performed in its scope, fewer complications after them, faster recovery of patients' health and lead to a reduction in the costs of treatment and rehabilitation of patients. However, for this to happen, further research is necessary to answer the question about the role (or roles) of the mesentery in the human body. J. Calvin Coffey announces their conduct, to go from learning the construction of the mezere to study its function.
However, the discovery of the Irish researcher has already changed a lot. First, it increased the number of organs that humans have by one. Secondly - it influenced the change of content contained in the most famous manual of anatomy, that is Gray's Anatomy.
