Embarrassing Bodies
Season 5 Episode 8 - Wickerman Festival
Caro visits Dr Christian at the clinic. For eight years Caro’s eyelid has been closed over. It started bleeding from the corner and has become progressively worse: lumpier, redder and it bleeds regularly. Dr Christian diagnoses it as arteriovenous malformation (AVM). This condition is essentially an overgrowth of blood vessels and can occur anywhere in the body. It’s very rare in the eyelid. Treatment is highly risky so close to the eye, so Dr Christian sends Caro to Mr Omar Durrani at the Birmingham Eye Hospital for more tests. Mr Durrani presents one option as being major surgery that would solve the problem but runs a 30% risk of damage to Caro’s eyesight. Caro goes for an angiogram from Dr Saleh Lamin. The procedure shows that her AVM can be treated without major risk to her eyesight, so Caro can now make a decision about what course of action to take, without the stakes being quite so high.
Episodes in Season 5
Thailand
30 min
Thailand (2)
30 min
Ibiza
30 min
Skegness
30 min
Stockton
30 min
Tamworth
30 min
Brighton
30 min
Wickerman Festival
30 min
Lumps And Bumps
30 min
Best Of Breasts
30 min
Under the Skin
30 min
Under the Knife
30 min
About Face
30 min
Live from the Clinic
30 min
Changing Sex
30 min
Stand up to Cancer
30 min
