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Rare conjoined twins with common heart born at Sion Hosp

Rare conjoined twins with common heart born at Sion Hosp

MUMBAI: A 26-year-old Mahim resident gave birth to a rare kind of conjoined twins, who share a heart and legs but have separate heads, at the civic-run Sion Hospital on Wednesday."These conjoined twins are not the usual type, but have a very complex internal architecture.Externally, they have two separate heads and necks, but a partially common thorax (the part between the neck and the abdomen); and are completely fused below the umbilicus (navel) level," said Sion Hospital dean Dr Suleman Merchant.Their mother (TOI has decided to withhold her name at her request) came to Sion Hospital well into the seventh month of pregnancy.


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Mumbai: Rare conjoined twins born with separate brains, Sion doctors say both doing fine

Mumbai: Rare conjoined twins born with separate brains, Sion doctors say both doing fine

Doctors are conducting tests to understand which limb is controlled by which brain before they proceed to separate the twins.Express Doctors are conducting tests to understand which limb is controlled by which brain before they proceed to separate the twins.ExpressIn a rare birth, a set of conjoined boys born to a Mumbai couple at Sion hospital has separate brains, but shares all other vital organs.