Surgery performed on woman with two uteruses

Doctors in Dubai performed a key-hole surgery on a young Nigerian woman who had two uteruses, and said that she would be able to conceive now. Fejiro Rosemary, 21, flew to Dubai to undergo the operation as despite two open surgeries back home, doctors there could not identify the problem, Dr Hafeez Rahman, chairman of the Sun Rise Group of Hospitals, said. The doctor said he performed a laproscopic surgery on the woman, which is the second such case in the UAE, using a minimal invasive procedure. Rahman is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for conducting 50,000 key-hole surgeries around the world. This anomaly affects one in a million, the doctor said. The case was complicated as one uterus was blocked and her kidney had shifted into the pelvis. The one-hour operation that was performed two days ago, was done through a single key-hole in her side and the patient returned home the next day, the surgeon added. Similar case in Sharjah The first such case was reported in Sharjah earlier this year. A 13-year-old Sudanese girl had two uteruses and her menstrual blood was blocked, giving her severe pain. "That was an open surgery," Rahman said. The doctor saved both the uteruses in Rosemary as there was no need to surgically remove one of them, he said. Each of the uteruses had its own Fallopian tube. Rosemary was also in intense pain as pus had been collecting in one of the blocked uteruses.