Dr. Neel Shah
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Mayor Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome.
It sounds like a law firm, to be honest.
When I was in residency, I took care of people at Boston Children's Hospital that would fly in from all over the world who had this syndrome.
The most extraordinary thing is that sperm does not survive acid.
Gastric acid in the stomach is basically as acidic as it gets.
I've never seen sperm survive in the stomach in my whole career.
What they say in the case report is that she vomits.
So it basically has to be like perfectly positioned anatomically to be near the place where it would exit based on where the stab was.
And then it gets even wilder.
Now, when they deliver her, her cervix is completely dilated.
It empties into nowhere.
And there's no blood anywhere.
And apparently she's never menstruated before.
So the other extraordinary timing is this is the first time she's ever ovulated in her entire life.