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February 4, 1951
Longest Surgery Ever
Doctors
in Chicago completed the longest operation in history, a four-day marathon to
remove an enormous 300-pound ovarian cyst from a 58-year-old patient.
The
patient, Gertrude Levandowski, after her husband died in the early 1940s, she
began to gain weight because of an UN-diagnosed ovarian cyst. The growth had
caused her to balloon to over 600 pounds and develop heart problems.
Roberts
started draining the cyst Feb. 1. Roughly 200 pounds of fluid had been removed
after four days, leaving a smaller, more manageable tumor that no longer posed
a risk to Levandowski’s heart.
Time
magazine reported the shrunken cyst as being about the size of a “bushel
basket,” or 8 gallons.
Born 65 years ago?
Then congratulations for entering the world of Medicare. If you would like to
know more about the maze we call Medicare
…
