Man with 90-kilo tumour: US doctor successfully removes Nguyen Duy Hai’s tumour

January 5th, 2012

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Last updated at 5:07 PM on 5th January 2012

A Vietnamese man has come through a 12-hour operation to remove a 198lb tumour from his right leg

Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, is said to be in a stable condition after the surgery at the France-Vietnam hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

Leading U.S. surgeon McKay McKinnon led the eight-strong team who began operating on Mr Hai’s leg at 8.55am local time this morning.

It worked! Vietnamese man Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, seen with his mother, survived the operation to remove the 198lb tumour on his right leg

Long haul: Leading U.S. surgeon McKay McKinnon, right, and his eight-strong team spent a gruelling 12 hours removing the tumour

They didn’t finish until 9.15pm.

Dr McKinnon, who has successfully removed other large tumours in his 30-year career, had been positive about the surgery despite it carrying just a 50 per cent success rate.

Speaking to Tuoitrenews, a
Vietnamese website, before the procedure, he said it was essential for his team to take out the ‘nidus’ or origin of the tumour to stop the growth returning.

Mr Hai suffers from ‘neurofibromatosis’ a disease that causes disfiguring tumors to form on nerves
throughout the body.

Gruesome: The surgery was broadcast live to a room of press, family and curious medical staff

OPERATION TIME LINE:

6.30am: Nguyen Duy Hai sent to theatre.

6.40am – 8.50am: Mr Hai anaesthetised.

8.55am: Dr McKay McKinnon begins operation.

10am: Doctors remove a 50cm long by 5 – 7cm deep part of the tumour.

11am: Mr Hai ’s family told first phase of the operation is a success.

1.30pm: The surgery team stops for a quick break and to wash medical equipment.

7pm: The tumour is finally removed and operation announced a successful.

9.15pm: Mr Hai sent to recovery room.

The tumour began growing when Mr Hai was a boy and is thought to be the biggest ever recorded in Vietnam.

Over the year it has grown from the base of his spine, snaking up his back and around his thighs.

It is intertwined with bloody vessels making cutting it away potentially deadly.

The strain on Mr Hai’s already weakened heart was also a risk. To combat this the team decided to keep him upright throughout the operation.

While the tumour is not cancerous, its sheer mass means it absorbs vital blood and nutrients from Mr Hai’s body, making it weak.

Dr McKinnon agreed to waive his fee
for the operation while the remaining costs of around VND 252million
(around $12,000) has been raised by family and well wishers at home and
abroad.

Mr Hai’s family wept after being told he had survived the operation.

They had been anxious after an attempt to remove the tumour in 1997 was unsuccessful. Doctors had been forced to amputate Mr Hai’s right leg below the knee.

Speaking before the operation Mr Hai told Tuoitre News, a
Vietnamese website: ‘It’s common for
people to fear death, and I’m no exception.

‘But when I heard Dr McKinnon had decided to
come back to Vietnam one more time to give me a new life, I became more
hopeful.’

Gruelling: Mr Hai had been afraid he would die. The operation carried only a 50 per cent success rate

Disability: Mr Hai's tumour began growing when he was a little boy. An operation to remove it in 1997 was unsuccessful leading to his lower leg being amputated

Disability: Mr Hai’s tumour began growing when he was a little boy. An operation to remove it in 1997 was unsuccessful leading to his lower leg being amputated

Dr McKinnon successfully operated on a similar size tumour growing out of a Michigan woman in 1999.

He said this patient was older and in worse shape than Mr Hai, but came through the operation and is now leading a normal life.

‘She survived that
surgery after 50 units of blood transfusion,’ he told Tuoitre News. ‘She was in the hospital for
about six weeks, and required physical therapy for about a year.’

Despite Mr Hai’s operation being a success the healing process will not be an easy one.

An infection on the large open wound could easily kill him and he will later have to endure multiple skin grafts and reconstruction operations.

He will also be in intensive care for weeks and will then have to undergo physiotherapy for months.

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Just Dang! Thank God a Vietamese man can come to the United States and get the best medical care in the world!

– Mrs. Greg House, Inner Turmoilia, USA, 05/1/2012 14:00

Oh bless him, i cant believe he’s been left this long! Hope all goes well for him

– hayley, swindon, 05/1/2012 13:32

All the women going under the knife for their boob jobs should actually donate their money for the surgeries like this one and we all men will admire their boobs whatever they look like(btw the Natural are always attractive and sexy).

– Addi, Philly USA, 05/1/2012 13:26

Words fail me, how the heck this poor man has lived with this I cannot imagine. I hope the operation is a success.

– mishmash, Island of the Sun, 05/1/2012 13:22

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