KOMPA! MAGAZINE

[Ti boxer]

By PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb, a doctor said.

The infant, who was identified only as Nazia, was in critical condition following the two-hour operation at The Children's Hospital at Pakistan Institute of Medical Science in the capital, Islamabad, said Zaheer Abbasi, head of pediatric surgery at the hospital.

Abbasi, the chief doctor who led the operation, said the case was the first he was aware of in Pakistan of fetus-in-fetu, where a fetus has grown inside another in the womb.

"It is extremely rare to have two fetuses being discovered inside another," Abbasi told The Associated Press, adding that he did not know what caused the medical abnormality. "Basically, it's a case of triplets, but two of the siblings grew in the other."

The baby comes from Abbotabad, about 30 miles north of Islamabad. She is the fifth child of a woman in her 30s, who was at the hospital to be with her daughter. Her father works in the Arabian Gulf.

Abbasi said surgeons removed the two partially grown fetuses, totaling about two pounds, that had died at about 4 months.

Other fetus-in-fetu cases have been reported elsewhere in the world. A report in a June 2000 issue of the U.S. journal Pediatrics called such occurrences rare and estimated their rate at about 1 per 500,000 births.

[Ti boxer]

This is what I call "a first!"

Unbelievable!!!!!

Ti Boxer
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Yes Aya

[cici]

Actually, this case reminds me of something I watched on the Discovery channel[ actually 2 shows]. This is actually interesting news to hear!!

One:
A young boy has surgery to remove what looked like a fetus in his stomach. When they took it out, it looked like a half shaped human being. They did an autopsy to figure it out. They still are confused on what is is.

Two:
A 75 yr old woman was pregnant for a very long time and did not even know it.. Doctors thought it was a tumor or something grave, but were surprised to see a odd shaped fetus!!

[JenJen]

I've never heard of that scenario myself. Amazing! So many things can go awry once fertilization occurs.

I saw the same Discovery Health show with the 75 year old Morrocan woman who carried a dead fetus for 46 years. The pregnancy was an ectopic pregnancy so the embryo attached istself outside of the uterus. The fetus developed to term, but was not in a position to come out so the baby eventually died. To protect itself from infection, her body formed a casing of calcium around the dead fetus. The woman knew that she was pregnant. When the baby stopped moving, she concluded that the baby "went to sleep". She went on with her life until 46 years later abdominal pains brought her back to the hospital where physicians discovered "a mass" to find out later that it was actually a calcified fetus.
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[KREOLA]

It's unbelievable the diseases and abnormal things that are happening on this earth
ENFIN se sa yo rele la fin du monde nan

The other day on Maury they were showing this 14 yrs old girl from Haiti with an enornous tumor on her face. It was very sad for me to watch

[NEGKREYOL]

Unbelievable...tandé de bagay mezanmi.
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[Ti boxer]

Negkreyol,

se pa jwet non man! Jan'w we Kreyola sot di ya, se la fin du monde wi gason'm.

...cause I have never heard of any such thing in my life!! Never!

Ti Boxer
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Yes Aya

[belchokola]

WOW...this is remarkable!!

I hope the baby will safely recover.
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[Neg Lakay]

Jan nap polye lemond, pran poz nou se mèt Lanati. Anyen pa twop pase nou. Nou se chen mèt chen metrès, bagay konsa pa ta dwe fè nou sezi konsa. Yo pran poz ap goumen kont "terorists", ap chache WMD. Pi gwo WMD yo se nan men YO sa chita. WMD sou tout fom.
Kreyol pale kreyol konprann!


Peace!
Neg Lakay
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[Raymi]

Neglakay,

Se gwo bagay ou di la wi gasom....

Boxer,
Post bam chills.....Well nothing should be a shock anymore in this day in age....

Much love
Raymi.
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Some men see things as they are and ask why?
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? RFK.