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Doctors In Brazil Perform C-section On Woman Who Wasn't Pregnant

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    Officials in southeastern Brazil say doctors performed a cesarean section on a 37-year-old woman only to discover that she wasn't pregnant.

    Simone Carvalho is a spokeswoman for the Health Department of the coastal city of Cabo Frio. She said Tuesday the woman told doctors at the city's Woman's Hospital she was 41 weeks pregnant and in pain.

    Carvalho said one reason doctors believed she was pregnant was because "she had the symptoms associated with pregnancy like an enlarged abdomen and nausea."

    Carvalho said "doctors could not hear the baby's heartbeat and feeling its life was in danger ordered an emergency cesarean after which they discovered it was a false pregnancy."

    The spokeswoman added the woman "was so convinced she was pregnant, that she altered her prenatal tests that showed otherwise because she was convinced the results were wrong."

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    Egyptian Doctor, Dec 18, 2013
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    Awkward....
     

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    No utrasounds......... And history
     

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    Why done c/s ? N what about ultrasoumd n pregnancy test? N what about history of gestational ammenorhea?
     

    Dr MF, Dec 19, 2013
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    Why not confirmed with USG, horrible decision ...
     

    Mufizur, Dec 19, 2013
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    Ours is a strange world.
     

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    Straight to a C-section without any obstetric USG or hCG testing?
    o_O
     

    Sheikh Ammeer, Dec 19, 2013
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    increíble, sin confirmar enbarazo y directo a una cesárea.. ni un tacto le hicieron??
    ya que dijo que tenia dolor!!
     

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    It is a big joke! This site should be of humor in medicine! It is obvious to anyone who understands the surgery! Look at the table: you see something like a Farabeuf? Those special tweezers?
    And for what lenses increase in cesarean section? Haha! There will be a Surg Light Plus? LOL Must be used in Egypt! LOL
     

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    You can check this story here :

    1- Daily Mail : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525278/Doctors-perform-emergency-C-section-woman-womb.html

    2- Fox News : http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/12/17/doctors-perform-c-section-on-woman-who-wasnt-pregnant/

    3- The Province : http://www.theprovince.com/health/Brazilian doctors perform cesarean woman only discover wasn/9296552/story.html

    4- CBS News : http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazilian-woman-undergoes-emergency-c-section-but-isnt-pregnant/

    We have many medical errors in medicine here in Egypt too and it is the same in all developing countries and no one can deny that
     

    Egyptian Doctor, Dec 20, 2013
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    medical blunder!
     

    rgabor, Feb 7, 2014
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