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Doctors operate girl for rare vaginal disease

THE ASIAN AGE
Published : Jan 10, 2017, 1:30 pm IST
Updated : Jan 10, 2017, 1:50 pm IST

The disease affects only one in 10,000 women in the world

The doctors initially thought it was a urinary tract infection or appendicites but after several tests could not detect the cause of the complications. (Photo: Pixabay)
 The doctors initially thought it was a urinary tract infection or appendicites but after several tests could not detect the cause of the complications. (Photo: Pixabay)

While the world is learning to deal with cancer there are many diseases that are yet not recognised and unknown in the world. Doctors in Mumbai were left surprised when they couldn’t find the reason a young girl was in pain while menstruating.

A few months back parents of a 12-year-old didn’t understand why their child was in pain when she started menstruating. According to a report in the DNA, It wasn’t just any pain that is usually experienced but a rare disease that all the doctors they went to, missed while thinking it was just a urinary tract infection.

"We later suspected appendicitis, until that was ruled out, too," said Rakesh Kumar, the patient's father. The girl was suffering from a condition called Vaginal Atresia - a disease affects one in 10,000 women. The menstrual blood accumulates in the vagina because of the absence of a vaginal canal and causes a lot of pain to the girl.

The girl underwent a reconstructive surgery by Dr. Sanjay Pandey, Corrective Urologist at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and will now have her periods normally.

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