Nigerian twins joined at the lower abdomen
and hips were successfully operated upon and separated at the B.L. Kapur (BLK)
super-speciality hospital after a 13-hour surgery.
The twin girls – Hussaina and Hassana Badaru shared
their spinal cords, lower intestinal tract and genitourinary tracts. This meant
that they had one common passage for fecal matter and another one for passing
urine.
“The separation surgery took us 13 hours,
with further surgery of five hours dedicated to reconstruction. The separation
was a big challenge as they had unusual sharing of the alimentary canal and the
nervous system,” said Prashant Jain, one of the experts performing the surgery.
“The girls were seven months old when they
were brought to the BLK Hospital. They were suffering from ‘pygopagus’, a case
in which the babies are joined at the sacral region and the hips. This is
considered to be the rarest of rare case that occurs in 50,000 or 100,000
births,” said Praneet Kumar of BLK Hospital.
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