Not every woman has to contend with having a child and a fibroid growing inside her. Yet, for 35-year-old Imayavalli, a labourer from Redhills, the life of her child was seriously threatened by a fibroid that eventually turned out to have a weight of 7 kilograms.
While larger fibroids have been detected in non-pregnant women, this is one of the largest documented fibroids that have been observed in a pregnant woman, said doctors. Valli, who had been coming in for regular consults with the doctors at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (IOG) attached to the Madras Medical College, found out about about the growing fibroid in her uterus, three months ago.
“We told her that it would seriously endanger her child if she tried to remove it when her child was in her womb, so we decided to wait till she reached term,” explained Dr V Kanagasabai, Dean of MMC. On Sunday, the woman’s husband Ravi brought the eight-months-pregnant woman to the hospital in Egmore with blood streaming out of her cervix. “A Caesarean had to be done immediately, but we knew that there was going to be immense blood loss that could affect either mother or child,” he added.
During the three-hour surgery undertaken at the behest of Dr Umashanthi, GDO at the hospital, the woman had to be transfused with 7 units of blood and 5 units of frozen plasma to keep her vitals stable. “Eventually, a healthy but pre-term boy weighing 2.3 kilograms was delivered and the mother’s condition stabilized as well,” said a doctor who operated on the woman.
The surgeons not only removed the massive fibroid (30x30 cm) from her uterus, but ended up removing the entire organ. Valli did not seem mindful as her baby boy was safe and she could live to see this child and her first child grow up and face life. The surgery would normally have cost the labourer around `1 lakh, but was done free of charge under the CM’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme. Both mother and child will be able to return soon after being kept under medical supervision for a while.
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