12-year-old Brazilian boy suffering from giants 2.3 meters tall and risk surgery

According to the British "Daily Mail" reported on October 17, the American television program "Bizarre Body" will be broadcast on October 19, a set about Brazil's 12-year-old boy Gabriel Gomez ( Gabriel Gomes) documentary grueling gigantism. He is the world's tallest 12-year-old boy 7 feet 5 inches (about 2.3 meters), in order to stop going tall, to return to normal life, he risked pituitary tumor surgery, although the operation was successful, but the risk still exists .

The pituitary gland in the pituitary gland can secrete growth hormone, when the gland tumor appears, it will make the secretion of auxin in excess, resulting in gigantism, Gabriel is a symptom of this. He said that the height of different ordinary people brought him physical and psychological pain. He just wanted to be an ordinary 12-year-old boy without any pain or suffering. He said, "I can not go to school because I am too tall and my chair does not fit in and I hope I can go to school smoothly after surgery." Gabriel experienced a major surgery at the age of 10, Too large, can not be completely removed, leading to the tumor is still growing. Now two years have passed, doctors say Gabriel's tumors in the brain must be removed immediately or his life threatened with organ failure.

Gabriel and his mother, Ricardene, came to the risky second pituitary tumor resection at the Das Clinicas Hospital in St. Paul, 874 km away. Despite the complications and side effects of the surgery, Gabriel did nothing . Mother Ricardo said, "Gabriel stronger than most of his peers, I only hope that after surgery he can experience the normal life he had never enjoyed." After 8 hours of surgery, about 20 mm in diameter, pea-sized The tumor was successfully resected, but Gabriel showed the expected serious complications. Fortunately, after a few hours, he miraculously recovered and all the indicators of the body returned to normal. Doctors said the operation was very successful, growth hormone has reached normal levels. After a month of training in the hospital, Gabriel was discharged healthily and the two mothers grinned and finally had a normal life. (Internship compilation: Weng Jia-Li reviewer: Zhu Ying library)