She went to the emergency room with a horrible stomach pain
A new world record was set when Dr. Makhan Lala Saha, a gastrointestinal surgeon from India, removed 11,950 gallstones from a 51-year-old woman, Minati Mondal, during a laparoscopic surgery in Kolkata.
Mondal had been suffering from severe abdominal pain and acid reflux, which tests revealed were caused by gallstones. The surgery lasted about 50 minutes, but counting the stones took nurses four hours. The stones ranged from 2mm to 5mm in size.
Dr. Saha, shocked by the number, contacted the Royal College of Pathologists in London to preserve the specimen. He previously operated on a case with 1,110 stones, but this case far surpassed the 1983 British record of 3,110 stones. The patient recovered well and was discharged two days later.
