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09-21-2009, 08:41 PM
By JENNIFER BRAIN
Published: 21 Sep 2009
A 'PREGNANT' one-year-old has survived a ten hour operation to remove her unborn twin from her belly.
Little Kang Mengru had doctors baffled after her tummy began to swell.
They conducted a series of tests and were shocked to discover the youngster — who was abandoned by her mum at just three-days-old — was 'pregnant' with her own brother.
The rare condition — called foetus in fetu — is where a twin becomes trapped inside the developing body of its sibling.
The tot can survive past birth and keep growing by developing a new umbilical cord directly into their more developed twin's blood supply.
Tiny Kang, who was adopted by a couple in Zhenzhou, eastern China, underwent ten hours of surgery at the Zhenzhou People's Hospital and medics say she will now make a full recovery.
Chief surgeon Dr Zhang Xuedong said: "She will be able to go home at the end of the month, with her mother Wang Guihua and father Kuang Xiqing."
He added: "There was a very real risk of cardiac arrest. The pressure within the child's chest and belly was very great but now she is out of danger."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2647542/Pregnant-tot-survives-op-to-remove-twin-from-belly.html
Published: 21 Sep 2009
A 'PREGNANT' one-year-old has survived a ten hour operation to remove her unborn twin from her belly.
Little Kang Mengru had doctors baffled after her tummy began to swell.
They conducted a series of tests and were shocked to discover the youngster — who was abandoned by her mum at just three-days-old — was 'pregnant' with her own brother.
The rare condition — called foetus in fetu — is where a twin becomes trapped inside the developing body of its sibling.
The tot can survive past birth and keep growing by developing a new umbilical cord directly into their more developed twin's blood supply.
Tiny Kang, who was adopted by a couple in Zhenzhou, eastern China, underwent ten hours of surgery at the Zhenzhou People's Hospital and medics say she will now make a full recovery.
Chief surgeon Dr Zhang Xuedong said: "She will be able to go home at the end of the month, with her mother Wang Guihua and father Kuang Xiqing."
He added: "There was a very real risk of cardiac arrest. The pressure within the child's chest and belly was very great but now she is out of danger."
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2647542/Pregnant-tot-survives-op-to-remove-twin-from-belly.html