Overview
- Suze Lopez, 41, learned she was pregnant during pre-surgery testing for cyst removal, with imaging showing an empty uterus and a fetus growing in her abdomen.
- About 30 specialists removed the cyst and delivered the baby in the same operation at the Los Angeles hospital.
- The mother hemorrhaged after delivery and received 11 units of blood as obstetric anesthesiologists stabilized her.
- Ryu Jesse Lopez was born on Aug. 18 at 41 weeks, weighed about 8 pounds 6 ounces, spent two weeks in the NICU, and is doing well.
- Cedars-Sinai reports mother and newborn are now recovering at home after what clinicians called an exceptionally rare case.