A Mumbai-based hospital performed a complicated pregnancy procedure giving a new lease of life to a 32-year-old. Pratibha Dhanavte has been married for 14 years with a bad obstetric history of three abortions had Cushings disease where there is excess secretion of stress hormone cortisol due to a tumor in the pituitary gland in the brain and was operated for pituitary adenoma in 2005. Pratibha has had three miscarriages and had almost given up hopes of getting a healthy baby. Doctors say such patients find it difficult to conceive and carry the pregnancy. Pratibha conceived again. Dr Pradnya Parulkarobstetrician and
