SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ A San Antonio woman has amazed her doctors by surviving a seemingly endless hemorrhage that required transfusions of more than 35 gallons of blood and blood products.
Gina Walker was pregnant with her fifth child but also suffered from a rare complication called placenta percreta. Dr. Jason Parker, who led the team that saved her life, says the lifeline between mother and fetus invaded her bladder and major blood vessels along her uterine wall.
Parker says when Walker was admitted in labor to University Hospital in San Antonio Feb. 15, the complication required a cesarean section and a hysterectomy, but surgeons “encountered catastrophic hemorrhage.”
Hospital blood bank chief Sherrie Warner says she had to summon every pint of types B-positive and O-positive blood she could.
Mother and child are fine.
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