Medical team performs rare surgery for woman in Karbala

KARBALA / IraqiNews.com: A medical team performed a rare surgery on a pregnant woman to remove one of her two wombs, the director of an obstetrics hospital in Karbala said on Monday. “The woman, who is in her fourth month of pregnancy, had one of her two wombs removed after it burst.The surgeons removed it and kept her healthy uterus but the operation caused the death of the fetus,” Sabah Nour Hadi al-Musawi told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said the 24-year-old woman had delivered three times before but this case of double womb was never detected. Double womb, or uterus didelphys, is a pretty rare condition.It affects anywhere from about one in 1,000 to one in 1 million women worldwide, and it sometimes occurs in families. In some cases of double wombs, those two wombs share a set of Fallopian tubes, ovaries, a cervix and a vagina; other times, a girl is born with two of everything – two wombs, two sets of Fallopian tombs and ovaries, two cervixes and two vaginas. A woman can have a surgical procedure to join her two vaginas into one, but the wombs are typically left separate. AmR (TS)/SR 1034