Longest-surviving intestine op woman dies
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A Shanghai woman who lived without a small intestine for 30 years died as a result of multiple organ failure early yesterday morning, according to Zhongshan Hospital. She had survived longer than anyone in the world in her condition.
Zhou Qisi, 57, had been suffering from fever, anemia, infection and jaundice since last summer and had been hospitalized repeatedly.
She was hospitalized for the last time on March 11.
Zhou had her small intestine removed after it became twisted when she was 7 months pregnant in 1986. When she began to experience severe stomach pain, her family thought she was going into labor ahead of her due date of February 14.
She was rushed to hospital and doctors found the fetus had died, but the next day her stomach pains had not eased.
“She was already in shock from an infection and her small intestine no longer worked after being twisted too long,” said Wu Zhaoguang, a doctor at Zhongshan Hospital.
Doctors were then forced to remove her small intestine.
After losing the most important organ for digestion, she could not absorb nutrition from food and the hospital put a tube into her chest to give her an intravenous nutrient solution, an approach that was new in China at that time. The solution was supplied for free by a China–Sweden joint venture.
Relying on the solution for nutrition put her at risk of liver failure, blood poisoning and other life-threatening medical problems, making her long survival quite remarkable, said experts.
Zhou not only became the first person in China to live on intravenously administered nutrients, but also managed to give birth to a daughter six years later. She married last year and gave birth to a daughter in February.
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