A baby with a body will not have enough limbs

If the twins are afflicted at the National Pediatric Hospital to undergo surgery to save the healthy body, the baby will not have a complete motor system, because only one leg and one hand are owned.

The twins have been born for 5 days but the doctors have not yet determined the time of surgery. Doctor Nguyen Van Loc, deputy director of the National Hospital of Pediatrics said that although he determined to sacrifice his weaker grandson, who is a parasitic fetus, circulatory and respiratory activities were all due to his mother's pregnancy. Even grandchildren are not saved much.

The latest polls show that the twins' limbs are not "own" of a baby, but belong to both. When surgery to remove the baby parasite (the left child), the doctors cannot "give" their limbs to the twin sister. What is the body's limb causes only to listen to the control of the body's brain? So, even if selected to save lives, the right baby has only one leg and one hand.

Doctors also discovered more complicated problems in the twins' body composition: They not only share hearts, genital organs but also the anus, spleen, and digestive tract. In particular, although there are two spinal columns (separated from a pelvis), the children have ribs together. Therefore, if surgery, the doctor will be very difficult to reconstruct the chest and spine for the chosen baby. The risk of necrosis is high and her ability to live will be very fragile.

Therefore, the doctors have only outlined two main steps in the surgical plan: The first is separating the head, then separating the abdomen and internal organs. But how can they perform these steps safely and effectively, and the experts will continue to discuss.

Doctor Loc said, the two babies are still raised in the recovery room, the health condition is better when weak. As for the baby on the left because the lungs are no longer active, breathing has completely depended on the baby on the right.