There are thousands of worlds, there are no wonders. Recently, a 73-year-old woman in Algeria found a fetus in her stomach, which has been in it for 35 years, and the fetus has been calcified.
According to foreign media reports on December 26, a doctor in Algeria recently found a fetus in the body of a 73-year-old elderly woman. This is an extremely rare condition in which a calcified fetus is called a "fetal petrification.".
The fetus weighs 4.5 pounds and is 7 months old, and it has been in the old lady's body for 35 years, but she has not found it. According to local media reports, the old lady's life is very good, and her body is not harmed by the fetus.
The old lady had been treated before, but the doctors had not found the fetus. It is reported that this is a rare type of intraperitoneal pregnancy, where stillbirth remains in the abdominal cavity of the mother and is gradually calcified.
Dr. Jimmy Garcy of Cleveland University Hospital Case Medicine Center said calcification of the fetus protects the mother from infection. But it also means that calcified babies can go undetected in the mother's body for decades. Jimmy Garcy told the media: "Most of the time it is not found, and many people do not take any action after finding out, because there are generally no symptoms. ”
According to a paper published in the Journal of the Royal Medical Society in 1996, 290 cases were recorded. The earliest was a 68-year-old French woman who was autopsized after her death in 1582 and found that she was pregnant with a fully developed calcified fetus in her abdominal cavity, which she had been pregnant for 28 years.
In 2013, an elderly Colombian woman went to the doctor for pelvic pain and was told the pain was caused by a calcified fetus that had been in her body for 40 years.