Indian capital doctors, make an operation that changes the life of a 17-year-old boy to get his “parasitic” twin attached to his stomach.
A parasitic twin is a less-developed twin dependent on the full host twins for safety.
They are rare, with Under a case occurring every 100,000 childbirth.
Teen with a fully developed additional set of arms and a pelvis – backed by an artery in the chest – a time operation at Aiims Hospital in Delhi.
Dr. Asuri Krishna, who leads the team of specialists, said the operation was more challenged for the patient’s age.
“40-50 cases of parasitic twins were recorded in World Medical Literature and, in cases, the children’s operations were started,” Dr Krishna told BBC.
In insufficient medical literature to lead them, the team must trust their “intuition, skill and knowledge”, he added.
Dual parasitic forms when a fetus partially progresses while attached to another.
In this case, the teen has two fully formed legs, buttons and external genitalia – weighing about 15kg – protruding from his stomach.
Strange, parasitic arms can feel pain, touch and change temperature.
Dr Krishna says the first thing they do is recognize how to connect parasitic and host twins.
Through scans, doctors know the parasitic twin attached to the teen’s chest and granted blood from a container to his chest.
“But there is no many connections with other major organs like liver or kidney,” said Dr Krishna, adding that they also found a large cyst in the teen’s stomach.
Operation has been done in two stages – first, the parasitic twin has taken, then removes cystic mass from surrounding organs.
A group of doctors, including radiologists, anesthetists and plastic surgeons, completed the procedure for two and a half hours.
“A mesh shared blood vessels, nerves and tissues should be separated. The care must be seen to see that the host organs are damaged,” as Dr Krishna.
During operation, teen blood pressure fell into danger while 30-40% of his blood flowed into parasitic twins. But doctors say they are ready for it and quickly strengthened him.
The teen was thrown out in four days after being acquired. He is healthy and does not suffer complications from the operation, as Dr Krishna.
The teenage unusual appearance makes him subject to gossip and joke in his neighborhood in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh. The stars and jokes are related to his mental health, leaving him feel alone and alone.
“I can’t travel anywhere or able to do any physical activity,” he told the Indian Express newspaperthat increases he fell from school in eighth grade.
The 17-year-old told the expression he is happy and now wants to live an active life.
“I hope to study and get a job. A new world opened me,” he said.
