Free Web NovelChapter 548: Chapter 251: Double Heart? The Confident Young Man (Part 2)
"Dr. Li, could you please take another look for me? He said there’s nothing major wrong, but I find it hard to believe. When I woke up this morning, I really felt terrible."
The female patient spoke quite politely.
Her figure wasn’t particularly obese, just slightly plump.
Li Jingsheng listened and immediately took the stethoscope to re-examine her heart and lung sounds.
At first, everything sounded normal.
But after listening for a moment, his brow furrowed slightly.
Because he felt the patient’s heart sound seemed a bit heavy, yet not quite.
How to put it, it was like there was one heartbeat followed by a sound.
Thud!
Then there was a lighter sound that immediately repeated, but combined with the previous heart sound, making it feel somewhat heavy.
"Can you raise your hands above your head? Sort of like stretching."
Li Jingsheng said to the patient.
The female patient glanced at him, feeling a bit embarrassed.
Were it not for Li Jingsheng’s solemn expression, she might suspect the young male doctor of being a bit improper.
However, she obediently complied.
Dr. Shao glanced at her, unable to resist looking away, then inadvertently returned his gaze, continuing to watch.
Li Jingsheng seemed much more professional, openly staring, brows furrowed, listening carefully to the changes in heart sound.
"Yes, yes, that’s it from before. Lift your right hand and slightly press down to the right."
Equivalent to bending sideways to the right.
She complied.
This time, Li Jingsheng heard clearly, there were indeed two heartbeats.
This was definitely abnormal.
Normally, there should only be one heart sound.
Could the patient have double hearts?
This type of malformation exists, but there are fewer than three cases worldwide, and many die young, even shortly after birth.
Only one female patient in Australia was born with three hands, a strange tumor on the back.
That was the fourth hand, fused with the back’s skin and flesh.
A medical examination revealed the baby was an extremely rare twin abnormality fetus. Essentially two babies squeezed into a single body.
It also found many internal organs of this baby were duplicated, with some shared.
Later surgery removed the third hand and the so-called tail, which was actually the fourth leg.
The other leg was located in the abdominal cavity.
After surgery, the infant’s appearance seemed more normal.
Thanks to the parents’ careful nurturing, the child luckily survived.
Since then, she retained many duplicated organs in her system.
Until the age of twenty-one, she died during pregnancy.
Li Jingsheng felt especially amazed upon learning of this medical case.
But from then, he knew some individuals might truly have duplicated internal organs.
The female patient’s heartbeats were repeated and combined.
What could be the cause?
Her chest was large, the thoracic cavity larger than a normal female’s.
"Could there actually be two hearts?"
One malformed, significantly weaker, thus producing strong and weak heartbeats?
Li Jingsheng pondered, unable to find an answer.
But he had discovered the issue.
"I’ve heard two heartbeats in your body, let’s do an ultrasound check, okay?"
Li Jingsheng discovered that although the clinic’s hardware had been upgraded, it still seemed insufficient when needed.
This common flaw persisted in all.
Running a clinic was naturally no exception.
Enhancing some examinations could expedite and accurately diagnose the real cause.
"Okay!"
The patient readily agreed.
He took her to the medical examination room, because she was a female patient, and the examined area was the chest.
Li Jingsheng specially brought Tang Ping along to help.
Otherwise, should the patient accuse him of misconduct, clearing his name would be impossible.
No surveillance was installed in the examination room.
This was to protect patient privacy.
Upon examination, Li Jingsheng found her heart structure normal, with only one heart.
No dual hearts present.
He expanded the check slightly surrounding the area and quickly noticed something unusual.
A large cyst-like shadow appeared.
This should be the ascending aorta.
Yet, the visible wall echo significantly thickened.
"My gosh, such a large tumor at the ascending aorta, what is this?"
After a diagnosis, Li Jingsheng determined it was a massive aortic aneurysm.
"Dr. Li, did you find out what’s wrong?"
The patient felt somewhat shy.
But seeing Li Jingsheng’s astonished expression, she couldn’t help but inquire.
"Alright, dress yourself! You need to promptly go to a major hospital for further examination and treatment. Surgery might be necessary."
Li Jingsheng spoke as calmly as possible.
The patient’s situation was very dangerous.
Such a large aortic aneurysm equaled a ticking time bomb in her body, prone to triggering anytime.
Li Jingsheng printed the examination results and exited first.
Tang Ping followed, escorting the patient out.
"What illness do I have? What was discovered?"
The patient nervously pursued questioning.
She felt frightened hearing she needed surgery at a major hospital.
"Initially I thought you had two hearts due to hearing large and small heartbeats, closely aligned. Only after the ultrasound did I realize it’s an artery aneurysm. It is already very large, you absolutely can’t delay, go to the hospital now. Best call your family to accompany you, I presume they’ll admit you."
