Doctors Remove Baby's Second Head

[Cerebral_Assassin]

BENHA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian doctors said they removed a second head from a 10-month-old girl suffering from one of the rarest birth defects in an operation Saturday.

Abla el-Alfy, a consultant in paediatric intensive care, told Reuters at the hospital in Benha, near Cairo, that Manar Maged was in a serious but improving condition after the procedure to treat her for craniopagus parasiticus -- a problem related to that of conjoined twins linked at the skull.

"We are still working on the baby. After surgery ... you get unstable blood pressure, you get fever. But she is stabilizing," Alfy said. "We have some improvement."

As in the case of a girl who died after similar surgery in the Dominican Republic a year ago, the second twin had developed no body.

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[method77]

Holy shit! That's the scariest thing I've ever seen!!!111one

The head that was removed from Manar had been capable of smiling and blinking but not independent life, doctors said.

AAAAAA!!! Too weird!!!!!

Congrats to the doctors. Very impressive!

[Shawn]

[Wolfie]

I assume the second twin did not survive.

[KiwiCoromandel]

incredible stuff..those doctors did very well....i hope that the little one survives....

Edited February 20, 2005 by kiwibank

[Amber]

OMG! I don't know how they were able to look at the baby and not think of the other baby not really being with them. How sad is that... I hope the little one makes it. It's absolutely amazing to see what modern medicine can accomplish anymore.

[bmc]

HOLY SHIT! that some horror movie stuff right there

congrats to the surgeons for a job well done.

Edited February 21, 2005 by bmc

[Kooperman]

That truly is the damndest thing I've ever seen. To see the parasitic head smile or blink it's eyes would literally give me cold chills.

[Potato]

To think of a head as a parasite is crazy enough.

Congrats to the surgeons and best wishes to the little girl!

[moodyblue]

To see the parasitic head smile or blink it's eyes would literally give me cold chills.

Me too! I got chills just looking at the picture!

I hope she makes a full recovery...