We all dread the possibility of our doctor walking into the exam room, test results in hand, with a not-so-positive expression on his face. What could be worse than that? Well, how about if your doctor walked in scratching his head and saying "hmmm....". That's not exactly comforting either.
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I imagine that's exactly how things went down when a 66 year-old man in Hong Kong went to his doctor complaining about a swollen abdomen only to find out that he is, in fact, a woman.
According to Yahoo News, the condition that went unnoticed for the patient's entire lifetime was the result of two rare genetic disorders. One was Turner syndrome, which causes problems with chromosomes and leads to a number of symptoms, some of which are infertility, short stature, and a broad chest. The other is congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which is just about as difficult to deal with as it is to say. Symptoms include ambiguous genitalia and excessive facial hair.
It is rare for a patient to have both conditions. There have only been 6 cases ever reported. The only reason the doctors even ended up noticing the actual sex of the patient was due to the swollen abdomen the patient had been complaining which ended up being a cyst on one of the patient's ovaries.
If it wasn't for the cyst, the patient might have never found out. However, even after the discovery, the patient chose to continue to live his life as a man.
I imagine that's exactly how things went down when a 66 year-old man in Hong Kong went to his doctor complaining about a swollen abdomen only to find out that he is, in fact, a woman.According to Yahoo News, the condition that went unnoticed for the patient's entire lifetime was the result of two rare genetic disorders. One was Turner syndrome, which causes problems with chromosomes and leads to a number of symptoms, some of which are infertility, short stature, and a broad chest. The other is congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which is just about as difficult to deal with as it is to say. Symptoms include ambiguous genitalia and excessive facial hair.
It is rare for a patient to have both conditions. There have only been 6 cases ever reported. The only reason the doctors even ended up noticing the actual sex of the patient was due to the swollen abdomen the patient had been complaining which ended up being a cyst on one of the patient's ovaries.
If it wasn't for the cyst, the patient might have never found out. However, even after the discovery, the patient chose to continue to live his life as a man.
