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Re: moval of right ovary via ceacarean section

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:47:53 -0500 (CDT)


At Sat, 30 Sep 2000, suzzanne wrote: >
>my 15 year old daughter experienced extreme pain, they discovered via
>surgery her r ovary had twisted 5 times, it was engorged to the size of
>a grapefruit, they took the dead ovary and tube, and they have not

I hope you meant "now" instead of "not", because that would be a good thing to do.

>prescribed a mild birth control pill to give the other ovary which has
>two cysts on it at this time...any info on how to care for my daughter
>and what this means....thanks sus...

It means if she gets pain on the other side, she should go in right away before that ovary dies. They can be untwisted if they haven't already died before the surgery.

RDB

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R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG  FOG

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