BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A Bakersfield nurse has given birth to an 8-pound baby boy — and, in the same procedure, a 22-pound ovarian cyst.
Suze Lopez, 42, discovered she was pregnant just five days before she was scheduled for surgery on Aug. 18 to remove the huge cyst.
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Her ectopic pregnancy — a dangerous condition in which the fetus grows outside the uterus — was serious enough. But it was complicated by the fact that the baby was essentially hiding behind the much larger cyst.
A team of 30 medical professionals assembled at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for the delicate procedure in which Lopez needed 11 units of blood. The highly coordinated, complex delivery and surgery demanded maternal-fetal medicine specialists, gynecological oncologists, nurses, anesthesiologists and a host of specially trained surgical technicians. They filled the operating room to near capacity…