stunning discovery made for himself a 66-year-old man went to the hospital complaining of abdominal pain.In a survey of doctors found that the cause of pain is a cyst on the ovary, and the man actually - woman.
disease was caused by a very rare combination of two genetic disorders.One - Turner syndrome, which leads to the fact that women lose some specific functions.For example, are unable to become pregnant and have a baby.
However, the appearance of suffering from the disease usually does not change, but in this case, the patient also had congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which increase the amount of male hormones and made the patient like a man.
This case was reported by doctors from the hospital Kwong Wah Hospital and Queen Elizabeth, in which the patient is treated.Details of the case were published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal.
"The patient, by definition, is a woman who can not conceive. He also suffered from congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which made him look like a man. It is an interesting and very rare. However, these diseases are very rare. It is unlikely that in the near future will show moreone patient with a combination of these rare diseases, - writes Professor Allison Hon Kam-Lung of Chinese University pediatrics.
66-year-old resident of Vietnam was born in China and is an orphan. He grows a beard, have a small penis, but no testes. His heightjust 1.37 meters, but he decided to continue to see themselves as a man and as a treatment will receive injections of the male hormone, according to the report.
A detailed questioning, he told doctors that for a long time suffered from enuresis, as well as onthat was arrested after reaching sexual maturity at the age of ten years. The medical literature describes six cases where patients suffer from both diseases.The diagnosis of this man has been put in the most later in life.
According to doctors, Turner's syndrome suffer from one of the 2500-3000 women.Normal females have two X chromosomes and males one X and one Y.
Patients with the disease have only one X-chromosome.They usually look like girls, but the disease is diagnosed when they reach puberty.Patients suffering from this disease do not begin to menstruate.
private gynecologist Dr. Kun Ka Yan said that Turner syndrome is now increasingly rare, and most patients are detected even in the course of prenatal tests.Women tend to choose an abortion, because the disease can cause more serious health problems.
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