A 30-YEAR-old woman from Limassol has given birth to healthy twins after overcoming infertility caused by chemotherapy treatments.
The woman was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and doctors found tumours in her lymph nodes when she was 20 years old.
Chemotherapy is known to cause infertility and the woman could not fall pregnant.
A team of doctors from the Institute of Reproductive Medicine and the Intro Vito Fertilisation Centre in Nicosia, including gynaecologist Dr Andreas Chrysanthou and endocrinologist Dr Krinos Trokkoudes, decided to take on her difficult case and where satisfied with the results.
The woman was kept under supervision throughout her pregnancy and gave birth to two healthy boys.
Mother and children have gone home are in excellent condition.
On a sadder note, a 32-year-old Bulgarian woman living in Cyprus did not live to see her baby daughter before her heart gave in just two days after giving birth.
Rositsa Avgoustinou had a history of heart problems and despite warnings from her doctors became pregnant to give her Cypriot husband a second child.
Avgoustinou underwent a by-pass in 1995, a few months after meeting her husband Avgoustino Avgoustinou who took her to England for the surgery.
In 1998 she had a trouble free pregnancy and gave birth to a healthy baby boy and thought that it would be safe to have another baby.
But in her eighth month of pregnancy, she was admitted to the Cardiology Ward at Nicosia General Hospital when she began to have problems.
Due to the seriousness of her condition, doctors performed a caesarean and Avgoustinou gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
However, despite efforts by doctors to save her, Avgoustinou died two days after giving birth without having the chance to hold her baby.
Avgoustinou’s funeral was held yesterday at 5pm at Ayia Varvara church in Kaimakli.
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