82 year old woman found to be "pregnant" for 40 years

[Missing_Person]

Rare 'Stone Baby' Found in Elderly Woman

An elderly Colombian woman was stunned when she went to the doctor for pelvic pain and was told the pain was caused by a 40-year-old “stone” fetus.

The 82-year-old had been carrying the calcified four-pound fetus called a lithopedion for decades without realizing it, according to the Telegraph.

Doctors only discovered the rare medical phenomenon after ordering an X-ray that revealed the lithopedion, also called a “stone baby.” The woman is now expected to undergo surgery to remove it.

Dr. Kim Garcsi, who directs the ob/gyn clerkship program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, said the condition is so rare it has only been recorded approximately 300 times in medical literature.

Garcsi, who did not treat the Colombian woman, says the lithopedion is created when a pregnancy forms in the abdomen rather than in the uterus. When the pregnancy ultimately fails, usually because the fetus does not have enough blood supply, there is no way for the body to expel the fetus.

As a result, the body turns the fetus to “stone,” using the same immune process that protects the body from any foreign object detected in a person’s system. Garcsi said it may seem odd, but that the process is used constantly in the body to stay healthy.
“When you get old cartilage in the knee, it calcifies,” Garcsi explains. The calcification of the tissue protects the mother from infection, but also means the “stone” baby can remain in the abdomen undetected for decades.

“Most of the time people find these and [sometimes] even after they’re found and don’t do anything about it because they’re totally asymptomatic,” said Garcsi.

The rate of an abdominal pregnancy is about 1 in 10,000 pregnancies; however, Garcsi said modern medical care usually identifies any issues that would lead to a lithopedion before the “stone” baby can form.

Guess this woman’s always taken the elevator.

[orochizoolander]

Wow. She was more stoned than a promiscuous pot head in the Middle East.

[WTF-AKUMA-HAX]

Legend

of The Rock in the Stone.

The Human body essentially curing or at least safeguarding itself like that and several other ways is really interesting. The rate that it can occur being that high, relatively, is something else too.

[IglooBob]

after her last pregnancy she really hit rock bottom

[RagingDemonStorm]

[King9999]

So she’s been carrying a mummy this whole time?

[sarif2soon]

Wow, this one’s difficult to come up with a pun for.

[pherai]

WAS IT A BOY OR A GIRL?!?!

[GeneralD]

Does her kid post on here?

Because that would explain a lot.

[AlphaCommando]

[dn3000]

[Shadow_Ace]

I guess the term rock our with your cock out went a little too far…

so when they started I bet the doctors where like “DUEL 1, LETS ROCK!”

[Kromo]

I honestly think a fossilized fetus is actually pretty gnarly.
Like, imagine what that would fetch on the black market among eccentric, Chinese billionaires.

[NickRocks]

Congrats Soviet

[tataki]

IMO save all the funny threads for after the like/dislike/LOL/snakesmom response system returns. It’s simply not as fun without the instant gratification.

[Starhammer]

I was just reading about this earlier. 40 years…with a mummfied fetus in your stomach? And she did not know? The hell?

-Starhammer-

[blueleon]

IMO save all the funny threads for after the like/dislike/LOL/snakesmom response system returns. It’s simply not as fun without the instant gratification.

Agree

Until then, I’ll won’t be on the forums much.

[CI581]

made me think of Tessai from Ninja Scroll.

[BBQ]

Maybe she has a big vagina to not notice?

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lneonzPELX1qbvaudo1_500.gif

[Missing_Person]

I lost the will to make jokes, because there will be no one to click LOL, Like, or Insightful on my jokes.