A young mother, who had been fighting against placenta accreta, a life-threatening condition that most likely occurs if the patient has had previous caesarean section procedures, has died.The woman, Alexis Syfox, who had been battling for her life in the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care Unit for almost two weeks, succumbed around 21:45 hrs on Saturday.The Tucville Terrace, Georgetown resident delivered a baby girl two Wednesdays ago and almost bled to death on the operating table at the hospital.She had to be placed on a life support machine after she suffered from two cardiac arrests and renal failure during the course of her delivery.According to information received, doctors were forced to perform a hysterectomy (surgery to remove the uterus or womb) on Syfox.The placenta is an incredible organ that for nine months sustains the life of an unborn child.And Placenta Accreta occurs when all or part of the placenta attaches abnormally to the wall of the uterus.But it can also be deadly as a result of repeated c-section procedures.Dead: Alexis SyfoxSometimes, for no explainable reason, the placenta grows abnormally and invades the uterine wall.Women who have had previous caesarean sections are at greater risk for the condition and the risk increases each time she undergoes another.In an interview, Minister of Public Health,Cheap Jerseys NFL China, Dr. George Norton had said that the patient had her third caesarean section which was a very complicated case.“She bled unavoidably and when you lose that amount of blood, it affects the heart, so she crashed twice and was brought back to life,” the Minister explained.He revealed that when the woman was resuscitated, she ended up with renal dysfunction, which resulted in her being placed on a life support machine.Kaieteur News was told that while three caesarean sections are advisable, it can be risky.“My advice is rather than stopping at three, I would say two. Even though Science may say that you have no evidence to make such statements, with our situation in Guyana, I would advise mothers not to have more than two caesarean sections,” the Minister stated.He added, “Every time you damage that wound by cutting it open, and it heals back,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, it does not heal back as a normal tissue and then to cut it once again, that’s two abnormalities.”According to Dr. Norton, when the placenta fits onto the walls of the uterus and seeps through, you call it placenta accreta because it not only gets into the wall of the uterus but it goes through at times and attaches itself to the bladder.“If the placenta is right where you are going to make that incision to take out the baby, then it means you have to cut through the placenta. Now when you do that, the patient would bleed and it will affect both mother and baby.”This newspaper was further told that when the bleeding is too much,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, doctors would eventually have to perform a hysterectomy.“In order to take out the womb,Cheap NFL Jerseys, you have to separate it from the bladder (that the placenta had caused to become attached) and that can be tricky, the Minister said.He said that more emphasis will be placed on family planning to help mothers and their relatives to understand their condition more.Meanwhile,Cheap NFL Jerseys, the woman’s partner, Shawn Syfox, who spoke to this newspaper when his partner was a patient at the hospital, had said that had he known the danger of c-sections, he would have never allowed the woman to go through with the pregnancy.“Now this is a case where family planning is important because if we had known about this,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, we wouldn’t have gone through with the pregnancy,” Syfox had stated.He explained that his spouse walked into the hospital to deliver her child but it was during the surgery that he learnt about her condition.“They (medical personnel) need to tell people about the conditions and risks involved,” Syfox stated.