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– Hawa Adan from Ethiopia had presented with 13 years of abdominal swelling and doctors in Ethiopia could not tell what ailed her.
– In September 2020, she visited Mandera County Referral Hospital, where she was diagnosed with lithopedium.
– Lithopedion is a Greek word used to describe a fetus that has turned stone or petrified
– At the referral hospital, Hawa underwent surgery and successfully delivered a stone baby.
– After scrutiny, surgeons found that it was a male baby that was complete with placenta and cord weighing 1.75 kg.
Mandera County Referral Hospital (MCRH) on Tuesday, November 17, successfully performed a rare historic operation on a woman who had abdominal swelling for years.
The team of doctors who operated on Hawa Adan at Mandera County Referral Hospital. Photo: Chrispus Alex.
Source: UGC
Surgeons at the referral hospital operated on a 31-year-old Hawa Adan from Ethiopia who had presented with a 13-year-old abdominal swelling.
A tweet posted by the Frontier Counties Development Council (FCDC) showed that Hawa had previously visited most of the hospitals in Ethiopia, but was not given any diagnoses at any of them.
KalyJay melts the web with powerful photos after graduating from collegeIt was not until September 2020 that he tried his luck at the Mandera Reference Hospital, where after intensive investigations including CT scans, he was diagnosed with lithopedia.
Lithopedion is a word derived from the Greek words lithos, which means stone, and payion, which means child, to describe a fetus that has become stone or petrified.
According to the Journal of Medical Case Reports, lithopedion is a rare pregnancy complication that occurs when the fetus dies and becomes too large to be reabsorbed by the body.
This entity, in rare circumstances, can be difficult for physicians to diagnose, as it has a variety of clinical manifestations and is a very rare condition throughout the world.
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There are 300 cases reported worldwide. There is not a single case reported in East and Central Africa.
Ghanaian woman rises from the dead 12 hours after being admitted to a morgue in SekondiHowever, at MCRH, Hawa was operated on and successfully delivered a stone baby.
Upon closer examination, it was a male baby, complete with placenta and cord, weighing 1.75 kg.
The woman is now recovering in the hospital’s surgical unit.
Lithopedion is reported to occur in a situation where a fertilized egg grows in the tubes instead of implanting in the uterus cavity.
The fallopian tube can only allow the fetus to expand to a certain limit beyond which the product of conception will be abducted or discharged through the fallopian tube into the cavity of the abdomen.
Most are lost at this point due to the harsh extrauterine environment, but few end up developing.
In Hama’s case, the fetus is said to have developed in the abdominal cavity until about the last 30 weeks at the time the fetus was lost.
In areas with good health facilities, diagnosis is quick and surgical removal is performed.
Viral ‘doctor’ caught crying in anguish finally speaks; says they have dated for 8 yearsHawa is said to have been diagnosed in September 2020, but did not show up for her scheduled surgery until Monday, November 16, and was operated on the next day by a team of surgeons and gynecologists from MCRH.
The good news came just hours after another team of surgeons from Uganda’s Mulago Neonatal and Specialized Women’s Hospital separated the Siamese twins.
The team of highly specialized doctors only needed 20 hours to successfully carry out the operation that ended on the morning of Tuesday, November 17, as previously reported YEN.com.gh.
Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng and her permanent secretary Diana Atwine confirmed the development through their Twitter identifiers.
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