Days after a woman was detected with ‘fetus in fetu’, an extremely rare condition, two fetuses were removed successfully post-delivery from her three-day-old child’s abdomen in Amravati district of Maharashtra on Tuesday, doctors said.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old woman from Buldhana district was detected with the rare congenital anomaly, in which a malformed fetus is located within the body of another fetus, last month when she underwent sonography as part of regular health check-up.<\/p>\n
The woman delivered a baby boy on February 1 at Buldhana Women’s Hospital. Subsequently, she and the child were shifted to a super specialty government hospital in Amravati district where a team of doctors operated upon the newborn to remove two fetuses from his stomach, they said.<\/p>\n
The boy was operated under the supervision of Dr Usha Gajbhiye at Amravati Divisional Hospital.<\/p>\n
Talking to reporters, Dr Gajbhiye said there were two twins like fetuses with hands and legs in the stomach of the three-day-old child.<\/p>\n
The fetuses were removed successfully during the operation and the baby and mother were doing well, she said.<\/p>\n
Obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Buldhana hospital, Dr Prasad Agarwal, who conducted sonography on the woman when she was 35-week pregnant, told reporters last Tuesday that ‘fetus in fetu’ is one of the rarest medical conditions, occurring one in five lakh cases.<\/p>\n
Only about 200 such cases have been reported (across the world) till now, that, too, after delivery, including 10-15 cases in India, he had said.<\/p>\n
“But I was lucky and vigilant enough to notice something very unusual with this baby, grossly normal growing fetus with a few bones and a fetus-like structure in its abdomen,” Dr Agarwal said.<\/p>\n
“It struck me immediately that this is not normal. It was ‘fetus in fetu’, one of the rarest cases in the world. We asked for a second opinion and the case was confirmed by radiologist Dr Shruti Thorat,” he had said.<\/p>\n
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