A one-year-old baby from Mahaveerpur underwent a six-hour surgery on Thursday at Narayana Hrudalaya to relieve him of the burden of carrying his malformed twin. The surgery began at 12 noon.
“We are struggling since his birth and it took almost a year to reach the doctors who could assure us that he will be able to live a normal life,” said Krishna, the boy’s aunt.
Dr Ashley D’Cruz, senior consultant pediatric surgeon and urologist and director of Narayana Women and Children Institute, said, “In this surgery there is not much risk, but the only challenge is to do it in such a manner that the control mechanisms of the body do not get affected. The main blood supplying vessel has continued to the malformed twin. So the challenge is to separate the redundant parts and other muscles and soft tissues without affecting the child’s urine and motion control activities.” The boy, Vittal, is a rare case of Dipygus and only 15 of such cases have been reported worldwide, the doctor added.
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“We are struggling since his birth and it took almost a year to reach the doctors who could assure us that he will be able to live a normal life,” said Krishna, the boy’s aunt.
Dr Ashley D’Cruz, senior consultant pediatric surgeon and urologist and director of Narayana Women and Children Institute, said, “In this surgery there is not much risk, but the only challenge is to do it in such a manner that the control mechanisms of the body do not get affected. The main blood supplying vessel has continued to the malformed twin. So the challenge is to separate the redundant parts and other muscles and soft tissues without affecting the child’s urine and motion control activities.” The boy, Vittal, is a rare case of Dipygus and only 15 of such cases have been reported worldwide, the doctor added.
Source http://expressbuzz.com/cities/bangalore/1-yr-old-malformed-twin-separated/188326.html
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