KGMU docs remove baby’s unborn twin in a 2-hour surgery

KGMU docs remove baby’s unborn twin in a 2-hour surgery

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Lucknow:11.11.2021

A child with his unborn twin attached to his lower back was successfully operated and disjointed from it by a team of doctors at King George’s Medical University’s (KGMU) pediatric surgery department.

The two-hour long surgery was performed on November 3 under the guidance of department head Prof J D Rawat, Dr Piyush Kumar, Dr Sudhir Singh and Dr Anand Pandey.

Doctors performed the intricate surgery and separated the abortive twin, who had two legs, hands and back but no head, from the fully formed child.

“On August 25, a woman in Sitapur had given birth to a child having a mass, legs and hands attached to its back. The family got worried over the abnormal growth and rushed the newborn to the local hospital from where they were referred to KGMU,” said Prof Rawat.

“The MRI showed that the mass was an abortive twin attached to the child’s back over the lumbar spine and spinal cord. The child was successfully freed from the burden of the mass growing on its back and is doing well,” he added.