Breast Reduction Saves a Life!
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Most people already know that breast reduction by a plastic surgeon can prevent a lot of pain in the back and the shoulders of women who have huge, heavy breasts.
But save a life?
It actually happened when a mother of four little children was trapped under her massive N-size cup breasts for half a year.
The strange case happened in a remote area of Northern Peru when a five-foot tall woman, Julia Manihuari, 29, found her breasts continued growing after the birth of her third son.
According to news reports, Julia’s breasts caused her to faint if she tried to get out of bed; Julia, who admitted to having always had a small body build, said the stress of the breasts caused her absolute agony.
“My breasts were growing daily,” said Julia Peru. “My skin had sores and I had trouble breathing.”
By comparison, the Guinness world record holder for largest breasts ever belongs to a Florida exotic dancer who claims to have triple M breasts.
In Peru, Julia’s doctors at the Loayza Archbishop Hospital in Iquitos – in the Peruvian rain forest — had more serious concerns. First, they announced that the diagnosis was an extreme form of bilateral gynecomastia. But that was probably an error in translation because gynecomastia only occurs in males.
Julia’s doctors probably meant gigantomastia, which is the rapid growth of the breasts usually concurrent with pregnancy, according to Dorland’s Medical Dictionary.
Naturally the doctors were worried that the huge weight would crush her lungs.
Such a condition is VERY rare and only happens in about one in every 28,000 women.
After six months of being bed bound, word about Julia’s plight eventually got out, donations poured in and a trip to the nearest hospital was organized.
During a six-hour operation, doctors found the breast reduction was more complex than most because they had to work around many extra blood vessels which had sprouted in the breasts.
(Learn more about the unusual breast surgery.)
Eventually, they removed 35 pounds of flesh, fat and tissue, leaving Julia with much more manageable 34B breasts and freeing her from entrapment in her bed.
admin @ May 25, 2010