Many people think that in the modern world medicine is quite predictable, and most of the facts are statistically repeated annually. And what is the story of a patient who lived for several years with a toothpick in her body.
Most often, people learn about their unique cases against the backdrop of strange symptoms or completely unexpectedly when they undergo examination for a completely different reason.
Today we will get acquainted with the TOP 10 amazing cases that are recorded in the history of medicine.
10. Charles Bonnet syndrome
The story tells of a 67-year-old woman who taught children in a Kentucky school. She regularly observed strange elongated faces in front of her with huge eyes and large teeth. Faces soared before the eyes, bringing the patient to a frenzy, because she did not know the origin of the problem (she never took drugs, which was confirmed by the examination). The woman was already thinking of calling an exorcist for the rite when she was diagnosed with Charles Bonnet syndrome. With it, the occurrence of such hallucinations is possible, which is associated with degenerative processes in eye diseases.
9. The effects of tattoos
About amazing people who cover the whole body with spikes and tattoos, we have heard many times. Moreover, the pigment is implanted in various parts of the body, including mucous surfaces. One Iranian went further, deciding to "tattoo" his penis in an erect state. On the "instrument of love" was to be sealed a message for the girl, which is translated from the Persian language as "good luck on travel." The man explained that this symbolic gesture was to bless the couple for love exploits. All 8 days after the tattoo, the patient felt pain, and after its relief it turned out that the penis remained in a constant half-regenerated state. The man had to suffer a whole block, after which he turned to doctors. They could not help the Iranian, leaving him forever in a state of “combat readiness”.
8. The longest operation
It would seem that the longest operation in the history of mankind would have been to manipulate the nervous system or the brain, heart, other vital organs. But all the records were broken by the standard operation for excision of the ovarian cyst, which lasted continuously for 4 days. A huge cyst was removed for an obese woman (weight 280 kg), after which her body weight dropped sharply to 140 kg. Here is a giant neoplasm that the patient has been carrying in her body for many years.
7. The highest body temperature
Objectively, it is believed that at a temperature of 42 ° C the tissues of the body overheat critically, degenerative processes in the brain begin, which leads to death. However, in 1980, a patient, Willie Johnson, was admitted to the Atlanta hospital with a unique temperature of 46.5 ° C. Doctors could not believe with their own eyes, observing the scale of the thermometer. The patient says that the temperature rose amid a strong heat stroke. Recovery of the body after such overheating took 24 days, after which Will was discharged.
6. Beautiful cataract
In cartoons and science fiction films, they often depict a situation when, after a strong blow to the head or as a result of an injury, a person draws spinning stars before his eyes. It turned out that the fictional situation is not so far from the truth. A strong blow to the face with a heavy object, a ball, or, for example, an airbag, can cause damage to the eyes, against which cataracts develop. However, a patient from Austria, aged 55, developed an amazing cataract with a clear star shape. Ophthalmologists sincerely hope that the chance to restore vision surgically in this unusual case still exists. As many people know, usually a cataract takes the form of a dense whitish cloud, spots on the eye, by no means stars.
5. Lead bullets in the appendix
One day, an eight-year-old student from Australia ended up in a hospital with severe stomach pains. The standard X-ray in this case revealed many small round objects located inside the abdomen, which made doctors only guess about the origin of the latter. Normal bowel lavage did not give any results, so an operation was prescribed, during which 57 bullets were removed from the lead with the appendix, and the process itself exceeded the norm by 5 times. It remains to be seen how the bullets penetrated the schoolchild's appendix, and how he was able to spend a certain time with them.
4. The lowest body temperature
Low temperatures are also fatal for the human body, just patients rarely go to the hospital with just such a symptom. However, in 1994, a 2-year-old girl, Carly, was admitted to the hospital in Canada. It turned out that her door was locked, and the baby spent in the cold at minus 22 ° C for 6 hours. Her own body temperature dropped to a critical mark of 14.2 ° C, which is incompatible with life, as a person develops a coma at 25-27 ° C. The little patient survived, but the consequences of such a careless and unscrupulous parental attitude towards the child remain unknown.
3. The consequences of the removal of the amygdala
When certain parts of the brain are removed, unexpected effects and reactions in the body can be observed. For example, after an operation to remove the amygdala (therapy of an advanced form of epilepsy), the patient developed hypersensitivity. Since this department was responsible for recognizing emotions, now for a woman every event is new, she experiences emotional arousal and surprise, as well as the physical effects associated with it.
2. The biggest overload
During one of the races in 1977, a car driver was in a disaster. As a result of it, the rider’s body was forced to survive a sharp decrease in speed from 173 km per hour to zero over a distance of a little more than 60 cm. Such a sharp inhibition led to severe overloads in the body and the consequences in the form of fractures (29 pcs.), Dislocations (3 pcs.) and cardiac arrest (as many as 6). However, the man was able to survive.
1. The longest cardiac arrest
Continuing the theme of amazing cardiac arrests, we present the case of the Norwegian fisherman Jan Revsdal. One of the winter months, a man fell overboard the ship into the water of the North Sea, which led to a decrease in his own body temperature to 24ºС. The expected coma came, as a result of which the heart stopped already for 4 hours! After the patient was connected to a heart-lung machine, he was able to recover and went on the mend.
These amazing patients, along with their special cases, were registered during medical practice. This demonstrates once again that you should never lose hope, even when things are bad for all medical indicators.