NIGERIAN SURGEON REMOVES WORLD’S LARGEST FIBROID TUMOUR.

A Lagos hospital has successfully removed the world’s largest fibroid tumour
from a patient.

An independent laboratory has confirmed the tumour weighed 26 kilogrammes,
double the size removed by Indian doctors around the same time last year.
The medical team at SAFEHANDS HOSPITAL, Old Ojo Road, Lagos, led by the
Director of Anaesthesia, Emergency and Family Medicine, Dr INNOCENT OKOAWO.
removed the tumour from a 37-year-old Nigerian woman, Abimbola Esther
Akinade.
The three-hour long surgery was performed in February 2014, two months
before doctors in the south Indian city of Chennai performed a similar surgery to
remove a 13.6kg fibroid tumour from a 52-year-old woman simply called Latha.
Until now, the Indian doctors were known to have the record for removing the
largest fibroid tumour.
Dr Okoawo told Africa Newesday, that an independent confirmation of the size of
the tumour he successfully removed prompted him to seek to correct the record.
Seramoses Diagnostics, also based in Lagos, confirmed the tumour weighed
26kg and was 31cm in diameter.
Additionally, 32 other smaller fibroids were removed.
Speaking to Africa Newsday in a telephone interview, the patient, Miss Akinade,
said: “It was a real miracle.”
She released he had a fibroid tumour seven years earlier, while she was a trainee
nurse. Nothing could be done sooner because of her inability to pay the cost of
surgery and her dreading of surgery.
“I was under a lot of pressure,” she said. “My menstrual periods were very
irregular, sometimes delayed for 10 days. I suffered from fatigue a lot.”
Miss Akinade ruefully said: “Sometimes people who thought I was pregnant
would say ‘I hope you will deliver safely’ and that made me furious.”
“It was not easy,” she said. Even a doctor in the hospital where she was a
trainee nurse told her no hospital would be able to carry out a successful
surgery.
In an emailed comment, Dr Okoawo noted: “The double icing on the cake is the
fact that she received no transfusion and her uterus was not removed even
when we removed 32 additional smaller fibroid s.”
The patient, Miss Akinade, opted for bloodless surgery on religious grounds,
however, increasing reports show that bloodless surgery has led to quicker
recovery of patients and as a result has become more popular. Fear of infection
and the desire to contain the cost of treatment are other reasons some opt for
bloodless surgery.
He told African in a telephone interview that Miss Akinade is now fully
recovered and her current photographs demonstrate the major transformation
she has gone through after the surgery.
Miss Akinade said on telephone: “Now I am sound.” She currently lives in Ijoko
area of Otta, Ogun State, near Lagos, where she is currently a trader and
spends time in the ministry, preaching the good news of the Bible.
(THATS MY CHRISTAIN BROTHER, MY DOCTOR AND MY FRIEND....may Jehovah bless all ur efforts in helping to offer medical cure without violating Gods principles on Blood.)