A 45-year-old woman undergoing long-term dialysis was left stunned after doctors discovered a 50cm-long medical wire had been left inside her body after a routine hospital procedure—with the error only picked up three months later. The woman’s case has been published in a report by a team led by Abdul Qadir Nawabi, a cardiovascular researcher at the Mellat Medical Institute in Kabul, Afghanistan. The case report details how the woman—who has lived with uncontrolled high blood pressure for more