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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...dly-heart-tumour-saved-doctors-SUPERGLUE.html
Nurse with deadly golf ball-sized heart tumour saved after doctors fill it in with SUPERGLUE
By Lucy Laing
Last updated at 11:58 AM on 18th April 2011
Jamie Arliss: Doctors thought there was nothing that could be done to save her life
Jamie Arliss (right) with her daughter Leighton and husband Scott. She was saved after doctors filled her heart with superglue
...Dr Cove said: The only recorded cases of such heart tumours in patients are in patients who have already died.
It is a difficult tumour to diagnose and very rare, and there are no recorded cases of anyone alive in the world with this type of tumour.
She went into the operating theatre, but the surgeons who carried out the operation couldnt remove the tumour and said there was nothing that could be done to save her.
She could have been listed for a heart transplant, but a donor wouldnt have come available in time. It was a dire situation for her as we didnt know what we could do for her.
Then in a stroke of luck, a neurosurgeon came to work in Dr Coves office, as his own office was having work done to it. And Mr Cove observed some work he was doing using a medical form of superglue to mend blood vessels in the brain.
He said: I saw the superglue and wondered if it would be possible to put it into the tumour and stop it growing.
I spoke with the neurosurgeon who was hesitant as it had never been done before, but we decided that it would be worth a try....
A scan of the tumour (marked with an arrow) before it was filled with the medical supergule
The superglue clearly shows up in the scan as black and has now stopped the rare tumour from growing in Jamie's heart
Nurse with deadly golf ball-sized heart tumour saved after doctors fill it in with SUPERGLUE
By Lucy Laing
Last updated at 11:58 AM on 18th April 2011
Jamie Arliss: Doctors thought there was nothing that could be done to save her life
Jamie Arliss (right) with her daughter Leighton and husband Scott. She was saved after doctors filled her heart with superglue
...Dr Cove said: The only recorded cases of such heart tumours in patients are in patients who have already died.
It is a difficult tumour to diagnose and very rare, and there are no recorded cases of anyone alive in the world with this type of tumour.
She went into the operating theatre, but the surgeons who carried out the operation couldnt remove the tumour and said there was nothing that could be done to save her.
She could have been listed for a heart transplant, but a donor wouldnt have come available in time. It was a dire situation for her as we didnt know what we could do for her.
Then in a stroke of luck, a neurosurgeon came to work in Dr Coves office, as his own office was having work done to it. And Mr Cove observed some work he was doing using a medical form of superglue to mend blood vessels in the brain.
He said: I saw the superglue and wondered if it would be possible to put it into the tumour and stop it growing.
I spoke with the neurosurgeon who was hesitant as it had never been done before, but we decided that it would be worth a try....
A scan of the tumour (marked with an arrow) before it was filled with the medical supergule
The superglue clearly shows up in the scan as black and has now stopped the rare tumour from growing in Jamie's heart
