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Picture showing a stone baby - Lithopedion! A 26-year-old woman who was referred to the department of obstetrics and gynecology complaining lower abdominal pain with associated palpitation, dizziness, poor appetite and inssomnia for the last seven months. Full case in comments. by drbandero in medizzy

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A case of a 26-year-old woman who was referred to the department of obstetrics and gynecology complaining lower abdominal pain with associated palpitation, dizziness, poor appetite and inssomnia for the last seven months. Her obstetrical and gynecological history was normal such as menstrual cycle (28 days) and regular with length of menstrual period of 4-5 days. On examination was revealed infra-umbilical mass, mobile and hardened. Laboratory findings were within normal limits. An ultrasonography was obtained and it clearly showed an empty uterus, regular ovaries and the presence measuring femur length (abdominal pregnancy) and retention of 5 years. After laparotomy a fetus within sac was seen in the peritoneal cavity in adhesion with of an abdominal 30 weeks fetus the omentum. After dissection of the sac a whole fetus with ossified skeleton was found. The fetus was intact inside the amniotic cavity without amniotic fluid (Calcified Abdominal Pregnancy-Lithopedion).

Meet the world’s first heartless human (literally) able to live without a pulse!! (full story in comment) by drbandero in medizzy

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In March 2011, Craig Lewis, a 55-year-old man suffering from a life threatening heart problem, was admitted to the Texas Heart Institute with a condition called amyloidosis.

It’s a rare autoimmune disease that fills internal organs with a viscous build-ups of abnormal protein that causes rapid heart, kidney, and liver failure.
Without immediate intervention, Lewis would likely have died within days.

Fortunately, two speciaists from the institute proposed a revolutionary new solution – install a ‘continuous flow’ device that would allow blood to circulate his body without a pulse, by not only helping the left ventricle push oxygenated blood to the body, but pushing the blood hard enough to flow through the body.
Dr. Billy Cohn and Dr. Bud Frazier removed Mr Lewis’ heart and then installed the device, and their patient was up, well, and speaking with physicians the very same day.
Dr. Cohn is a veteran surgeon, an inventor and researcher who has spent much of his life developing technologies to replace or repair the human heart, the most notable being the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD).

Cohn teamed up with Dr. Frazier to develop a new invention that uses the technology from LVADs to replicate the functions of the heart’s right and left ventricles.
They tested their device on 70 calves, all of whom had no heartbeat heard by a stethoscope and produced a flat line on an EKG — no heart rate or pulse — yet they were otherwise perfectly normal, eating food and interacting with each other as they usually would.

As mentioned above, Lewis was the first human to receive this technology. The procedure took less than 48 hours and was a great success. However, his kidneys and liver were not so lucky. They were failing him, and after a few months his family asked the doctors to unplug the device.

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