elephantiasis #2
肥満女性が脂肪を取り除く手術を行うことが書かれております。女性はエジプト人のEman Ahmed Abd El Atyさんです。彼女の体重は500kgを超えているようです。ベッドから動くこともできず11歳の時から25年間外出はできませんでした。手術はインドで行われます。
記事の中で気になった単語は"elephantiasis"です。Oxford Dictionaries.comで調べると，" A condition in which a limb or other part of the body becomes grossly enlarged due to obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, typically by the nematode parasites which cause filariasis"と定義されておりました。フィラリア症を引き起こす線虫に観戦することによって生じるもので，手足や体の一部が極度に巨大化する症状を意味するようです。象皮病とも言われます。(Ume)
India doctor to operate on '500kg' Egyptian woman
Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, who is 36, is being looked after by her mother and sister
Dr Lakdawala said Ms Abd El Aty's sister got in touch with him in October and he began raising money to bring her over to Mumbai as her family was too poor and unable to bear the costs of chartering a flight.
"We are expecting to fly her to Mumbai next week as soon as the formalities are over," he said.
Dr Lakdawala believes that Ms Abd El Aty does not have elephantiasis, but suffers from obesity-related lymphoedema which causes gigantic swelling of legs.
"She would need to remain in Mumbai for two to three months for the surgery and treatment after which she would be able to return home, but it would take two to three years to bring her body weight under 100kg," the surgeon said.
"I'm hopeful that I will be able to help her, I won't say I'm confident because I think that would be an exaggeration," he added.
