Progress towards Human Anorectal Transplants

A new study indicates that human anorectal transplantation is possible anatomically and technically. They anticipate our study will aid in the potential future application of this procedure to human patients.

There has been a lot of discussion recently about progress towards human head or technically full body transplantation (full body transplantation from the neck down would include anorectal transplantation).

Anorectal transplantation is a method for patients who have lost their anorectal function or suffer from congenital anorectal dysfunction to recover this function, and this has been investigated in experimental animal models using pigs, dogs, and rats. In this study, we performed an examination of anorectal transplantation in human cadavers to investigate whether this procedure could be performed in patients.

Picture at the very bottom of the article. Not pretty. Do not go there if you do not want to see it

There are of course valid and wonderful quality of life improvements that this technology could enable.

However, I will briefly make a reference the first season of South Park. [Let me know if you can find a video clip of the South Park scene.

"Here is a monkey with four asses. And here of course is my four-assed ostrich and four-assed mongoose."
- Mafesto


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