In a first, foetus grows inside woman's liver in Canada

Tribune Web Desk

Chandigarh, December 17

In Canada, a foetus was seen growing inside a 33-year-old woman’s liver.

Paediatrician Dr Michael Narvey of Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba in Canada uploaded a video on social media showing the rare case in which the foetus was seen in the liver.

He said, "I thought I had seen it all. a 33-year-old woman comes in with a 14-day history of menstrual bleeding and 49 days since her last menstrual period. "

On examination, what the doctor found was an ectopic pregnancy in the woman's liver, reported The Sun.

An ectopic pregnancy is when the fertilised egg, instead of getting implanted in the uterine cavity, gets stuck somewhere else.

Dr Narvey, in the video, added, "We see these sometimes in the abdomen but never in the liver. This is a first for me." Surgeons saved the woman's life by surgically removing the foetus. However, the foetus couldn't be saved. Perhaps the egg and sperm "wound up travelling up to the liver where they implanted there."