Also known as: Heart growing outside the body
A fetus diagnosed with ectopia cordis, where the heart is developing outside the body in utero. This drives a major surgical storyline involving coordinated delivery and cardiac repair across two operating rooms.
Also known as: Brain cancer
Patient with an inoperable brain tumor causing severe behavioral changes, blindness, and personality alterations. He is the first patient in Derek and Meredith's experimental clinical trial using live virus injection, but the treatment ultimately fails and the patient dies.
Also known as: Bleeding after delivery
The mother delivering the baby with ectopia cordis experiences hemorrhaging during delivery due to uterine atony, requiring emergency intervention during the coordinated surgery.
Also known as: AIDS
A pregnant patient who is HIV-positive initially seeks abortion believing she cannot have a healthy baby, but is counseled about the 98% chance of having a healthy child with proper treatment.
Also known as: False pregnancy, hysterical pregnancy
Rebecca believes she is pregnant and presents with morning sickness symptoms, but lab tests reveal she is not actually pregnant, suggesting psychological causes for her symptoms.