Doctors from SUNY Upstate Medical University announced that a Congolese woman died of severe starvation as a result of her small intestine being compressed by a petrified baby fetus she had carried in her body for nearly nine years. case reported daily mail.
A Congolese woman went to doctors in New York City complaining of stomach cramps. The scan found a lithopedia in the body of a 50-year-old woman – the “stone boy”, a calcified fetus.
This rare phenomenon has been recorded less than 300 times, the first time being in France in 1582. In ectopic pregnancy, the fetus may die and become calcified. In some cases, women unknowingly carry a fetus for years.
The patient refused treatment. He eventually died of malnutrition caused by a fetus blocking his small intestine.
Death may have resulted from cardiac arrest or arrhythmia due to tissue deterioration. In addition, malnutrition can lead to a fatal infection.
The woman had to leave her hometown twice, due to conflicts in her youth, first moving from Congo to Burundi and then to Tanzania. She settled in Tanzania and gave birth to eight children naturally. Three died shortly after birth. During her ninth pregnancy, she visited a clinic in a refugee camp and noticed that her baby was no longer moving at 28 weeks pregnant.
Doctors said that the baby had no heartbeat and recommended that it return within two weeks if the body did not get rid of the fetus itself. One day, people greeted him outside the clinic and accused him of murdering a child. This caused the mother to decide not to seek medical attention anymore. He then carried the dead fetus for nine years and had no medical contact.
Doctors in the US convinced him to take antibiotics and drugs to lower his blood pressure. However, he continued to refuse the operation. At one of the receptions, he said that he did not want to be treated. The woman died about 14 months after arriving in the United States.