Tanzanian Woman Gets Treated For Rare Condition

Sauda Suleiman Amour was diagnosed as suffering from hepatomphalocele, a condition where the abdomen wall that protects organs such as intestines and liver is thin. Radhakrishna Patta, director of surgical gastroenterology in the hospital, who performed a four-hour surgery on her,Since the abdominal wall had thinned out, doctors had to reconstruct it. Doctors created space in the abdomen to accommodate the liver and intestines and used a method called transversus abdominis release (TAR). Read More…