Embarrassing Bodies - Season 5 - Eps 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.
About Embarrassing Bodies
Title: Embarrassing Bodies
First Air Date: 2007-05-17
Last Air Date: 2022-07-07
Status: Canceled
Rating: 7.4/10 (from 8 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 9
Total Episodes: 101
Network: Channel 4
Genres: Reality
Production Companies: Maverick Television
Synopsis
Embarrassing Bodies is a British television programme broadcast by Channel 4 and made by Maverick Television since 2007. In 2011, an hour long live show was introduced, "Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic", which makes use of Skype technology. Various spin-offs have been produced in relation to the programme to target different patients, such as Embarrassing Fat Bodies and Embarrassing Teenage Bodies. The show has a strong multiplatform presence on web and mobile.
Cast
Jane Leonard
Self - Presenter
Anand Patel
Self - Presenter
Tosin Ajayi-Sotubo
Self - Presenter
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
Self - Narrator (voice)
