KINGWOOD — A Kingwood woman who underwent surgery to remove a rare form of endometriosis from the lining of her heart and her diaphragm says she is doing well following her surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.
Endometriosis is a disorder in which the tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside it. In 25-year-old Kassie Shrout’s case it attacked her heart and diaphragm.
Surgery to remove the endometriosis required deflating her left lung so doctors could cut the lesions from the lining of her heart and from her diaphragm. She said from May 2017 to February the endometriosis had spread to the point doctors thought they might have to put a patch on her diaphragm.
“They (surgeons) videoed my surgery because my case was so rare,” Shrout said. “They documented it so they could teach other doctors how to treat it.”
The surgery was done at the Cleveland Clinic because leading experts on her condition practice there. Doctors warned Shrout in advance that the surgery was risky, involving breaking her breast bone and several ribs to reach the endometriosis, and complications were always a possibility.
But without surgery, her prognosis was not good, they said.
