[Sharon]

(Statistics correct at the time of original article in 2004)

Doctors at Shanghai Gongli Hospital removed a 3 1/2-month fetus growing on a woman's liver on Wednesday morning. It is the first time the operation has been performed locally and 15th worldwide.



A pregnant woman is saved when doctors removed a baby from her livers in Shanghai August 4, 2004. The baby was dead when doctors of the Shanghai Pudong Gongli Hospital took it out of the mother's livers. It is reported that such pregnancy is extremely rare, so far only 14 cases reported in the world.

The hospital received permission from the family to make the fetus a specimen for future research studies.

The woman, a 30-year-old Anhui Province native surnamed Cao, was in stable condition after the emergency surgery. She left hospital one week later.



Cao was sent to the hospital in Pudong at 6:40am after experiencing terrible pain. She was in deep coma when arriving at the hospital. An ultrasonic check later found the fetus on the liver.

"The surgery is not difficult but quite risky," said Xu Yanmin, a hospital official. "The patient could have died any time if the liver had ruptured."

Doctors spent one hour to remove the male fetus.

"Extrauterine pregnancy is not common. More than 90 percent takes place in uterine tube," Xu said. "There is about one possibility in every 100,000 pregnancies that the zygote flows into the abdominal cavity. It is even rarer that the fetus grows on the liver."

Experts said women in their most fertile period must arouse awareness when stopping periods. They must go to hospital for medical checks and treatment.

Extrauterine pregnancy must undergo treatment immediately, or it can be fatal to the woman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic_pregnancy
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2041923-overview

[LadyCPlum]

[DiamondSmiles]

It looks so peaceful, and I don't mean that in a sick or evil way.

They're so cute, even at that age.

[mikejudd]

Why do they say livers... What is this woman with livers and a liver baby?

[CuriousOne]

I can't even understand how that's possible...to have a baby develop outside of a uterus?

[Sharon]

Originally Posted by mikejudd ↗

Why do they say livers... What is this woman with livers and a liver baby?

I know Chinese translation

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by CuriousOne ↗

I can't even understand how that's possible...to have a baby develop outside of a uterus?

Most ectopic pregnancies are in the fallopian tubes, I've never seen one in the liver before....I wonder if the woman has endometriosis, if that disease can cause the uterine lining to grow outside the uterus, could a fertilized egg be carried out as well?

[Zambini]

Well, I've always followed the practice there were no ovaries in the throat or ass, so I felt pretty safe going that way til now..

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by CuriousOne ↗

I can't even understand how that's possible...to have a baby develop outside of a uterus?

Babiess can develop outside the uterus and attach to various organs. I don't know how either.

Did you hear of the woman in either Egypt or India, who was pregnant for 40 some years?

She knew she was pregnant, but, assumed the baby, "went to sleep." since she didn't feel it anymore.

Many years later, she had severe pain and the baby had attached to her organs and calcified. She adopted after that.

Wherever she lives, the hospitals were horrible!

She is on here somewhere.

Could not find her, but, I found a woman in China.

*Woman Delivers ‘Stone Baby’ After 60 Year Pregnancy*

In a bizarre turn of events straight out of Mr. Ripley’s personal files, comes this true story of a 92-year-old woman who delivered a child, (albeit not a live baby), she had been carrying for over half a century! (Long pregnancies are one thing, but THAT is ridiculous!)

Huang Yijun, aged 92, is from southern China and she recently made news after delivering a baby known as a lithopedion, aka ‘Stone Baby’.

Huang Yijun told the press she didn’t have the money to have her fetus removed after doctors told her it had died inside her in 1948.

So she simply did nothing at all about it.

Lithopedion is a very rare medical phenomenon, which occurs when a pregnancy fails and the fetus actually calcifies while still in the mother’s body.

Medically speaking, what often happens is the implanted fetus gets to an advanced stage before it dies. Too large to be absorbed by the body, the remains of the child or its surrounding amniotic sac slowly calcify, turning to stone as a way to protect the woman’s body from infection from the decomposing tissue.

If no complications occur, believe it or not, the mother can basically just go on with her life.

According to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, only 290 cases of lithopedions have ever been documented by medical literature.

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by diamondsmiles ↗

Babiess can develop outside the uterus and attach to various organs. I don't know how either.

Did you hear of the woman in either Egypt or India, who was pregnant for 40 some years?

She knew she was pregnant, but, assumed the baby, "went to sleep." since she didn't feel it anymore.

Many years later, she had severe pain and the baby had attached to her organs and calcified. She adopted after that.

I think she's actually in the Guinness Book of Records for longest "pregnancy"