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Here is Part 2 of some amazing, surprising, and simply bizarre medical trivia, courtesy of Guinness World Records. • Charles Jensen of the
US holds the record for the most number of operations,
having undergone 970 of them between 1954–1994.
The operations were to remove facial tumors associated
with basal
cell nevus syndrome, a genetic disorder that
may cause malignant tumors.
• Cheyenne Pyle was the
world's youngest heart transplant patient, having
undergone the operation when she was an hour old.
She was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome,
a fatal condition that stops the heart from pumping
blood to the body. Unfortunately baby Cheyenne
did not recover, and died nine weeks later.
• The largest tumor ever
removed intact weighed 137.6 kilograms (303 pounds),
and was a multicystic mass on an unnamed patient's
right ovary. The patient left the operating theater
on one stretcher, and the cyst left on another.
• The longest medical
operation lasted 96 hours. The operation took place
from February 4–8, 1951 in the USA, and involved
the removal of an ovarian cyst. * * * * * Check back for the other three parts in our Guinness World Records series:
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