Indian doctors performed a 90-minute operation during which saved the newborn girl from the head of a twin parasite. On the at the moment the child is in the intensive therapy.
May 13, 2014 in a small Indian hospital at a 22-year-old Amlekha Bairva was born a daughter with a rare pathology – on the body of a newborn was the head of an underdeveloped twin parasite.
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That same evening, the girl was sent to the city hospital Jaipur, Rajasthan.
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
However, upon arrival at the hospital, the child developed physiological jaundice, so experts could not surgical intervention, reports Daily News. After waiting stabilization of the state of the enzyme systems of the body, May 26 surgeons started the operation and after 90 minutes of hard work saved the girl from the extra head.
“It was a case when in the early stages of embryonic development one germ begins to develop at the expense of another, and then the twin’s underdeveloped body becomes part of the formed fetus, – explained to reporters children’s surgeon Chetan Sharma (Chetan Sharm), who operated on a newborn with a rare pathology. – to us managed to successfully separate the head and restore the anterior abdominal the wall. But for a full recovery, we will have to make a second and the last umbilical hernia repair planned in a month. Then it will be a completely healthy child without medical complications. ”
Now the girl is under the close supervision of doctors intensive care units for newborns evaluating her satisfactory condition.
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
29-year-old father of a small patient, Ramjilal Bairva), never tires of thanking surgeons and looks forward to the moment when his daughter will be discharged from the hospital.
“I am very happy and grateful to the doctors and God for successfully passing operation, he says. – I could not take my child in my arms, but Now I will have the opportunity to hug him. She is the most beautiful girl and I am pleased to know that in the future she will not have problems due to a fetal malformation. ”
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