Foot still Larger After Amputees

News Health Article : Foot still Larger After Amputees. has one of the abnormal size of the body which can be dangerous, such as Mandy Sellars has continued to grow a giant foot was amputated and although this condition could kill him.

One of Mandy's leg swelled up like a giant finally operated on because it could kill him. But unfortunately, 22 months after surgery, his legs grow back bigger and are in an alarming condition.

Mandy (36 years) suffering from a rare disease that made his upper body has a normal size but his legs thoroughly dilated. Part of his left leg weighs 31.75 pounds and cause serious infections.

News Health Article : Foot still Larger After Amputees

When he developed septicemia (presence of bacteria that enter the blood vessels) the doctor was very concerned about these extreme conditions, until finally he decided to amputated his left leg. But now his feet have an enlarged returns of 19 kg with a circumference of up to 1 meter.

"I hope that amputation could be done to stabilize my condition, but I know in my heart that it will begin to grow again and they did," Mandy said, as quoted from Mirror.uk, Monday (11/07/2011).

But apparently the tip of the amputated leg is starting to increase the size of Mandy lingkarnya making it difficult to enter his artificial leg. The swelling continues to grow which makes his artificial leg to be broken.

Conditions experienced by Mandy is similar to Proteus syndrome is a rare hereditary disorder characterized by multiple lesions in the lymph nodes (lipolymphohemangiomas).

Then there overgrowth of one side of the body (hemihypertrophy), have abnormally large head (macrocephaly), gigantism in some of the foot and the presence of the dark or moles (nevi) on the skin.

"I'm not going to let this bother me. I have a life and I have to live as best as I could because there are still people out there who are worse off than me," said Mandy.