Guinness records of medicine

The person who got the most kidney stones in one procedure was an 85-year-old Englishman. August 1987 at Worthing Hospital, doctors removed from this patient 23,530 large and small kidney stones.

The record for the youngest person with kidney stones belongs to Canadian Brandon Brunette Seguin. When 6 and a half years old, the baby was found to have kidney stones, surgery to remove them.

Here are other medical records posted in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records:

Mr. Peter Houghton lives on an artificial heart.(Photo: BBC)

The longest-lived artificial heart transplant patient after multiple heart attacks is Peter Houghton, a British, who was operated on in 2000 at John Radcliffe Hospital. After transplantation, his health recovered quickly. He lived with this artificial heart for over 1,500 days, as of August 11, 2004 when he died.

The longest living on the hospital trolley : It was Tony Collins of the British, with diabetes combined with viral infection. He had to lie on a cart to 77 hours 30 minutes in the hallway before being hospitalized. The event took place at Princess Margaret Hospital, Witshire from 24 to 27 February 2001.

The day with the largest number of bone marrow donors was July 16, 2005. On the occasion of remembering patients with malignant leukemia Adam Evans Thomas (1969-2004), in Pembrockeshire (England) had 250 people registered bone marrow donation to help cure patients. Adam Evans Thomas spent the last 10 years promoting his job.

Record of larvae taken from a patient : In May 1990, at the Isogaki Gastroenterosurgical Hospital in Japan, doctors operated on a 58-year-old woman with severe nausea and abdominal pain. They took up to 56 worms in the 90-minute operation. Each of these worms is more than 17 mm long, then identified as hookworm larvae with scientific name Anisakis simplex.

The most swallowed person : A Canadian woman with mental illness swallowed up to 2,533 hard objects, including 947 bent pins. Later, she called for a severe abdominal pain, which caused the surgeon to remove all of these objects. The surgery was conducted at Ontario Hospital in June 1927.

Talented people bulge their foreheads and face with salt water : American artist Jerome Abramovich can make his forehead, his cheeks tense up, even deform his face by pumping saline into his skin. He used 250 ml of salt water to inject under the skin for 4 hours and waited another 24 hours to disperse the salt water evenly. Sometimes Abramovich also injects about 150 ml of saline solution into his cheeks to make his face younger. Experts recommend that people should not imitate because it is very dangerous.

The man with the largest tattoo area : This record belongs to Australian New Zealander Lucky Diamond Rich. He has spent over 100 hours letting artists perform body tattooing techniques, not one but multiple layers, using black body dyes.

The largest object was taken from the skull : American surgeons worked hard all night on April 25, 1998 to retrieve a knife longer than 20 cm in the head of a 41-year-old American patient. Despite being stabbed in the head by the knife, the victim was still alert, talking and doing normal functions after the day of the accident.