NewsWhore
03-29-2011, 04:10 PM
In a story carried by almost all of today's newspapers, a 65-year old Haitian woman was found to have been carrying a dead fetus for 30 years, becoming the first case of this type in the country and only the fourth in the world, according to the specialists who treated her at the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital. This was an ectopic pregnancy that became petrified in a condition that medical literature calls lithopedion (a fetus that has become calcified outside the uterus). Lusianni Isa lives in a Haitian town near Jimani on the border and except for stomach pains that she took care of with "plants from the earth and pills" she showed no symptoms.
About nine months ago her son Licien Saint Naurant brought her to live with him in a village near La Victoria. Last Saturday, he took her to the emergency room of the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital suffering from stomach pains. An x-ray revealed the existence of a fetal mass weighing more than three pounds. The membrane containing the fetus was removed by a C-section, performed by a medical team headed by Dr. Albert Basa and Liladys Roman.
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About nine months ago her son Licien Saint Naurant brought her to live with him in a village near La Victoria. Last Saturday, he took her to the emergency room of the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital suffering from stomach pains. An x-ray revealed the existence of a fetal mass weighing more than three pounds. The membrane containing the fetus was removed by a C-section, performed by a medical team headed by Dr. Albert Basa and Liladys Roman.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)