Eight embryos were taken from the womb of a 21-day-old baby in a rare case of “parasitic twins” in India.
The boy, who was born on October 10 at a public hospital in Ramgarh district, was operated on Tuesday at a private healthcare facility (1) in the same district.
At first, doctors suspected a tumor in her abdomen due to the swelling in the area, but they soon discovered the embryos.
“The initial diagnosis showed that there was a cyst or tumor under the diaphragm. We decided to remove it and we discovered eight fetuses during the surgery,” said the doctor in charge of the surgery, Muhammed Imran, in an interview with the press. India’s trust.
According to the medical team, the embryos were between three and five centimeters across and were all concentrated in a type of cyst in the child’s abdomen.
The rare condition of the newborn is known as a fetus within a fetus or “parasitic baby.” According to the British Medical Journal, it occurs when the malformed fetus grows inside the twin’s body, usually in the abdomen.
“Cases like this occur in one out of every five hundred thousand births. Scientific journals usually report a parasitic twin in most cases, but I’ve never seen so many births. [embriões] Only in a newborn”, the doctor said in an interview with the Times Of India newspaper.
In his opinion, because the case is rare, the procedure should be published in a scientific medical journal.
According to local media, the girl is doing well and is not in danger of dying.
source: Noticias
