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| Posted by: Wilmer McLean
- [75249] Thu, Apr 08, 2004, 03:42
http://tvone.nzoom.com/best/story.html?story_boy_twin.inc
The Boy Who Gave Birth To His Twin
Imagine discovering that you've been walking around all your life with your twin inside you. This is what happened to Alamjan Nematilaev, a seven-year-old boy from Kazakhstan. Last year he underwent surgery after his stomach became so distended that he looked pregnant. What the doctors found was reported around the world - growing inside Alamjan was his own twin.
The Boy Who Gave Birth To His Twin (Wednesday April 7 at 8.35pm on TV ONE) offers exclusive access to Alamjan's family and the medical team who operated on him.
Living in a remote village in Kazakhstan, Alamjan's family assumed that his growing stomach was the result of rickets and didn't take him to a doctor. However, when he started school, the resident doctor insisted that the family get him to a hospital immediately. Surgeons detected what they assumed to be a cyst. However, when they cut Alamjan open they discovered a large, oval mass covered in veins, nestled in the boy's abdomen.
After a complex operation the mass was removed and surgeons were able to examine it in detail. It appeared to be a baby, with long black hair and what appeared to be limbs, nails and genitalia. The body appeared to be male and alive, sustaining itself parasitically off its brother. If left unchecked it could one day have threatened Alamjan's own life
The doctors were unsure what this apparently humanoid creature was. "We were scared," one admits, "it was unpleasant for us." Dr Virginia Baldwin, a Vancouver-based paediatric pathologist and expert in multiple pregnancy problems, travelled to Kazakhstan to help.
Baldwin concluded that it was a case of fetus in fetu, literally meaning a baby within a baby. This extremely rare phenomenon occurs in the very early stages of pregnancy, where one twin gets trapped inside the body of the other and lives parasitically. Only approximately 70 cases have ever been reported.
The best-documented case of fetus in fetu occurred in the USA, where an eight-and-a-half month pregnant women travelled to the Yale School of Medicine to see a specialist. A dark shadow was detected in her baby's kidney. Scans revealed that the dark mass was moving - it was a fetus in fetu. This was the first time a foetus had been detected while the "host twin" was still in the womb. Luckily, the pregnancy went to term and, when the healthy twin was just three days old, the fetus in fetu was removed.
The Boy Who Gave Birth To His Twin screens Wednesday April 7 at 8.35pm on TV ONE.
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I was set aback in my chair when I was given this link from a friend. But, wowzer, rare and all!
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| | | 1 | nerveclinic
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Thu, Apr 08, 2004, 05:08
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I think you've been reading the Enquirer's April fools addition
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| | | 2 | Gmoney
Donor
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Thu, Apr 08, 2004, 11:37
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So, could that boy have aborted his brother if he didn't want to have him as a brother?
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| | | 3 | Gmoney16
Donor
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Thu, Apr 08, 2004, 20:34
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I guess so, no one seems to object. Of course our American Taliban may try to prevent this right to choose. How dare they!!!!
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| | | 4 | joe suspect
Sustainer
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Fri, Apr 09, 2004, 00:48
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"Alamjan's family assumed that his growing stomach was the result of rickets".
I'n sure glad I live in a country where I'm not exactly sure what the heck rickets are!
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| | | 5 | J.Stanhope,MD,
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Fri, Aug 04, 2006, 13:47
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Alamjan's condition was a case of one in about 90 reported worldwide, The idea of a child having a child growing inside of them, seems proposterous but it is infact reality, this is called Fetus in Fetu. when the fetus envelops the other fetus in the womb. there are several recent cases of this. in 2005 a 16 year old boy in bangladesh gave birth to a two kg, (4.5lb)boy, again the deception of a cyst. I am currently writing a paper on this subject if anyones interested in reading it.
-J.Stanhope,MD,F.A.S.C.P.
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| | | 6 | Boldwin
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Fri, Aug 04, 2006, 14:52
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I couldn't tell from all that if it is possible or ever happens that the second twin is born alive and goes on to live a significant lifetime afterwards. Did anyone pull that from the discussion so far?
This strikes me as within the range of possible outcomes of the siamese twin phenomenon. But in this case I would be curious about the blood flow connections.
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| | | 7 | boikin
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Fri, Aug 04, 2006, 14:56
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i think it is dead form the how they discribed the examination.
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| | | 8 | Micheal
ID: 47635112
Sun, Aug 06, 2006, 19:18
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A boy having his twin is nothing. I can beat that...I'm my own Grandpa.
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| | | 9 | Mattinglyinthehall
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Sun, Aug 06, 2006, 19:20
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That must have hurt.
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| | | 10 | Micheal
ID: 47635112
Sun, Aug 06, 2006, 19:32
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Yeah, well, it wasn't easy. Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three, I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
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| | | 11 | Mattinglyinthehall
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Sun, Aug 06, 2006, 22:15
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So... you're from West Virginia?
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| | | 12 | Motley Crue
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Mon, Aug 07, 2006, 08:41
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When I saw this thread BUTT'd the other day, I sort of couldn't believe it. Imagine my surprise this morning when I saw it was still in the top 5.
What a great thread. Important. Relevant.
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