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e 40-Year-Old 'Stone Baby' Found in Elderly Woman


Rare 40-Year-Old 'Stone Baby' Found in Elderly Woman

Dec. 13, 2013
By GILLIAN MOHNEY
PHOTO: A 40-year-old calcified fetus has been discovered inside the abdomen of an elderly woman in Bogotá, Colombia.
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.


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First African-American female billionaire, one of the richest women on the planet, 59 years old Oprah Winfrey said this in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

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"If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something in my life would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.  
Gayle was the kind of kid who, in seventh grade home ec class, was writing down her name and the names of her children. While she was having those kind of daydreams, I was having daydreams about how I could be Martin Luther King."  


First African-American female billionaire, one of the richest women on the planet, 59 years old Oprah Winfrey said this in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

Winfrey, at 14 gave birth to a baby who only lived for a number of weeks. 
Gayle is her best friend and is a mother of two.

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"If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something in my life would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.  
Gayle was the kind of kid who, in seventh grade home ec class, was writing down her name and the names of her children. While she was having those kind of daydreams, I was having daydreams about how I could be Martin Luther King."  


First African-American female billionaire, one of the richest women on the planet, 59 years old Oprah Winfrey said this in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

Winfrey, at 14 gave birth to a baby who only lived for a number of weeks. 
Gayle is her best friend and is a mother of two.

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