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Feb 12

Heaviest woman on Earth to undergo weight-loss surgery – Pulse Headlines

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The worlds heaviest woman has arrived in Mumbai, India, to undergo a weight-loss surgery that could help save her life. Eman Ahmed weighs approximately 500 kg and was admitted Saturday at Mumbais Saifee Hospital.

Ahmed was born in 1980 in Alexandria, Egypt. During her childhood, she suffered from a thyroid problem which forced her to stop attending school. Currently, she does not only faces obesitybut also suffers from many other diseases such as severe lymphedema and water retention, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hypothyroidism, gout, severe obstructive and restrictive lung disease. She has also already suffered a stroke that left her right arm and leg paralyzed, she does not speak coherently and is at high risk of pulmonary embolism, as reported by The Times of India.

Eman Ahmed will undergo a weight-reduction bariatric surgery that will be carried by Dr. Muffazal Lakdwala.Bariatric surgeries are special procedures that help the body loseweight by restricting the amount of food the stomach can receive, as explained by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. This restriction occurs by reducing the size of the stomach using any bariatric method, being the gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, and the adjustable gastric band the most commonly used.

It is not specified which procedure the woman is undergoing, but any of them can bring her what she needs to change and save her life.

Emans medicalvisa to travel to Mumbai was initially denied, so her family contacted Dr. Lakdawala in October last year to help them and take the case. The doctor contactedExternal Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who granted her the visa for her treatment.

This was Ahmeds first trip outside her home in Alexandria after nearly 25 years of spending her life in her room and unable to take care of herself. It was such a complicated trip that doctors had to begin treating her since December to ensure that she could travel safely from Egypt to India.

To prepare her for the flight, the team of doctors have been in Egypt for the last ten days to optimise the conditions for her travel; given the fact that she is so heavy and not moved for the last 25 years she is at a high risk for a pulmonary embolism and hence has been put on blood thinners to try and minimise the chances of such an eventuality during her transfer,Dr Lakdawala said in a press release on Friday, as The Times of India reported.

Eman had to be carried in special transportation due to her heavy weight. She was airlifted on a special aircraft since she could not pass through the doors of a regular plane. After arriving in India, she had to be loaded onto a truck using a crane, and another crane was then used to hoist her to her room in Saifee Hospital, as reported by The Inquisitr.

After she was admitted to the hospital, Ahmed has to undergo thorough evaluation for the next two days, according to a spokesperson for the doctor, before going into surgery.

Source: The Inquisitr

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