PICTURE BUGS: 198 Pound Tumor

198 Pound Tumor

198 Pound Tumor

VIETNAMESE MAN'S 198-POUND TUMOR REMOVED

(CNN) -- A Vietnamese man is recovering in the intensive care unit Friday, a day after surgery that completely removed a 198-pound (90-kg) tumor from his right leg, according to the hospital.

The 12-hour procedure, performed at FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, had been considered risky with a 50% success rate because of the amount of blood vessels around the tumor.The tumor was first discovered when the patient, Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, of Da Lat City, was four years old, according to FV Hospital. He had undergone a surgery to remove it in 1997, but in 2001, the tumor grew, and no doctors agreed to operate on him, the hospital said.

The growing tumor had rendered Hai virtually immobile until his surgery.

The latest surgery, which required Hai's torso to be elevated, was performed by a team of surgeons from FV Hospital and led by Dr. McKay McKinnon, a specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery from Chicago.

McKinnon has been credited with removing a 200-pound tumor from a woman in the U.S. state of Michigan in 2000 as well as a 176-pound (80 kilo) tumor from a Romanian woman in 2004.

Doctors expect that Hai's cardiac and pulmonary functions will return to normal over the next 10 days.

The hospital had set up a live video feed of the surgery for other doctors and hospitals to watch.

The cost of the surgery was estimated at $20,000, but the hospital said it will charge 60% of the cost, which will be covered jointly by the Red Cross of Da Lat City and sponsors.

The hospital said it is financing all the traveling costs and accommodation for Dr. McKinnon, who is performing the surgery free of charge. 303-pound tumor removed

Source:http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/06/health/vietnam-tumor/index.htm

PICTURE BUGS: 198 Pound Tumor

Doctors give up on 90-kg tumor | Look At Vietnam - Vietnam news daily update

Doctors give up on 90-kg tumor

December 3, 2011 about Health

Nguyen Duy Hai will not be able to get rid of his 90-kilogram tumor.

Doctors at Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City Tumor Hospital have decided against removing a local man’s 90-kilogram tumor, saying the procedure would cost the patient his life, VnExpress reported.
They said Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, had pleural effusion, which would cause respiratory failure after such an operation.
Massive blood loss during the procedure could also threaten the patient’s life, doctors said.
“We compared performing a risky surgery with letting the patient live with his non-painful tumor, and we chose the second option,” said Dr Pham Xuan Dung, deputy director of the hospital.
Hai will soon be brought back to his home in Da Lat, a mountain town in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. Doctors said they would continue to monitor Hai in case they may be able to operate on him in the future.
The HCMC Tumor Hospital said it was willing to provide assistance to any health organization or medical clinic able to perform surgery on Hai.
Hai said he was not “too upset” about the cancelation of the surgery because he has a lot of caring people around him.
Hai has been diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis type I (NF-1), formerly known as von Recklinghausen disease, a human genetic disorder.
Hai was a normal infant, but his right leg grew much bigger than his left leg by the time he turned four years old.

After doctors amputated his right leg 14 years ago, a tumor kept growing and has since swallowed portions of his buttocks and back.
This July, when Hai was admitted to the HCMC Tumor Hospital, the tumor was approximately 1 meter wide and weighed about 80 kilograms (176 pounds).
The tumor now weighs 90 kilograms.

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