Obese mom dies in Romania, months after birth
Victoria Lacatus, a 25-year-old pregnant woman weighing 528 pounds, is lifted by fire fighters out of an ambulance in Bucharest, Romania. (Feb. 17, 2010) Credit: AP
A 25-year-old Romanian woman weighing 528 pounds, who gave birth to a baby girl more than 5 months ago, has died.
Relatives of Victoria Lacatus say she died of a heart attack Sunday after developing a high fever and breathing problems.
Doctors from Craiova hospital in southern Romania said Lacatus’ heart stopped. Hospital manager Florin Petrescu said doctors tried to resuscitate Lacatus for 30 minutes, a task made difficult because of her extreme obesity.
When Lacatus gave birth on Feb. 18, Dr. Daghni Rasasingham, of Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in London said the case was rare, given the mother’s weight and height of 5 feet and 3 inches.
After she gave birth by cesarean section to a 6.4 pounds baby girl on Feb. 18, Lacatus gained another 44 pounds, her sister Cristina Sosoiu told the daily Libertatea. Doctors had told Lacatus to go on a diet but she apparently kept eating, the paper reported.
Rasasingham said she would be at risk of clots, diabetes, post-birth bleeding and infection.
Her daughter, Anisoara, currently weighs just a little over 9
pounds, the paper said. She lives with her maternal grandmother. It is not clear why the baby does not live with her father, Costica Lacatus.
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