The strange diseases first appeared in Vietnam

In 2016, for the first time in Vietnam, female students with liver tuberculosis on Wilson background, tortoise shell, baby crying like a cat, Clarkson syndrome .

Female students with liver TB on Wilson background

17-year-old female student in Dong Thap entered Cho Ray Hospital in May 2013 because of menstrual disorders and amenorrhea, swelling of joint pain without response to inflammation, anemia, liver damage, limb edema. diagnosis of Wilson disease (copper metabolic disorder) after many complex tests. After 24 months of treatment, when clinical progress is good, suddenly rare liver tuberculosis is detected.

After the fight against tuberculosis, the patient recovered well, is now a pretty student. This is the second Wilson patient known in the world. The first is a 16-year-old patient in Morocco. Hepatic TB is rare because the liver is an oxygen-poor organ, not suitable for developing TB germs. The disease usually occurs on immunocompromised patients like HIV patients. If not treated promptly, it will cause death.

Recovering patients talk to the treating doctor.(Photo: Le Phuong).

The syndrome cries like a cat

The one-year-old boy in Nam Dinh weighs only 6 kg, has a cleft palate, eyes away from each other, a high-pitched cry like the sound of a cat from birth. Baby underwent 3 times of surgery for cleft lip and cleft palate and when he was 8 years old, he had grafted teeth. With the cat syndrome, children need to practice phonetics.

This is the first case of cat syndrome that doctors meet in Vietnam. The patient was identified as deformed to lose the chromosome pair of chromosome 5. According to the world literature, this is a rare disease, with a rate of one in 50,000 and more women than men. Children often develop both physically and mentally and intellectually, at the age of 2-6 years old, can speak very slowly.

The boy is bloody condensed by Clarkson syndrome

After running the gym at school, 20-year-old male student in Binh Duong has many strange symptoms, unstable and emergency blood pressure at Cho Ray Hospital in critical condition. Tests showed that the boy's blood was severely concentrated, red blood cell volume, blood white blood cells were many times higher than normal.

Common diseases such as dengue fever or septic shock, anaphylactic shock, pulmonary embolism, acute pancreatitis . are not suitable. More intensive tests are available for patients who are diagnosed with capillary drainage system, called Clarkson's disease. According to medical literature, this is very rare, the world is less than 200 cases. The disease can occur at any age, cannot be completely cured, can recur many times, very dangerous if handled late.

She carries a tumor like a tortoise shell

" 0-year-old turtle" from Soc Trang went to treatment at Children's Hospital 1 (Ho Chi Minh City) with a dark tumor occupying all the back. This is a congenital melanoma that grows with time. Two surgical units spent 5 hours separating the tumor weighing more than one kilogram on August 29. Overcoming the risk of infection, good recovery patients and being discharged from the hospital, escaping the "tortoise shell" life to return to normal life.

This is the first case of turtle shells discovered in Vietnam and the second in the world. A 6-year-old Colombian boy was diagnosed in 2012, operated by a leading doctor in the UK.

The black bump on her back has many wide grooves that look like tortoise shells.(Photo: Le Phuong).

Young small head malformations due to Zika virus

On October 14, the Ministry of Health's infectious disease surveillance system recognized the baby living in Dak Lak with symptoms of congenital malformations suspected of having a small head. Subsequent tests showed that the mother and the fetus had been infected with Zika virus, because the mother had fever and rash during the 3rd and 6th months of pregnancy. This is the first case in Vietnam with a small head defect detected, the second country in Southeast Asia after Thailand.

On April 5, the Ministry of Health announced the first two cases of Zus Zika infection in Khanh Hoa and Ho Chi Minh City. The number of people suffering from the disease increased rapidly, especially in HCM City with hundreds of cases, including many pregnant women. Zika virus disease usually has mild clinical manifestations, which can cause serious consequences if pregnant women become infected in the early months of pregnancy because of the risk of minor deformities to the fetus.

The man has both uterus and ovaries

26-year-old patient went to Military Medical Hospital 120 on November 16 to treat inguinal hernia. He has been married for 4 years, normal married life, infertility examination has no sperm in the semen, so he has no children. When an inguinal hernia surgery, surgeons suddenly detect a tumor that is suspected to be a uterus and a bilateral appendage.

After emergency consultation, doctors decided to remove the tumor weighing about 300g. Male patient has a normal voice, has testicles on both sides but quite small. This is a rare rare case in Vietnam as well as literature. In 2011, a man with two children in India discovered the female genitalia in the lower abdomen and was removed. According to literature, his case is considered bisexual, but both hormones and his sexual orientation are clearly male.