Four-Armed Four-Legged Girl’s Surgery Successful
A girl born in India as what might be described as an underdeveloped conjoined twin has survived surgery to remove her extra pelvis and extraneous sets of legs and arms.
The surgery itself took 30 doctors and 15 hours to complete. The girl is now in stable condition and there is great optimism that she will ultimately recover and live a healthy life.
What makes this story more interesting, I mean besides all the extra limbs, is that locals believed that this girl was a reincarnation of Lakshmi, the multi-limbed goddess of wealth. In fact, she’s even named after the goddess. I imagine there must have been some protest about the surgery but this article doesn’t tell us very much more than that the surgery was a success.
If you’ve heard any more about this case, please let us know by commenting on the post.
Separation surgery on a two-year-old Indian girl who was born with four arms and four legs has been successful, doctors say.
Lakshmi Tatma was joined at the pelvis to what was, in effect, a headless, undeveloped twin.
A team of surgeons in the southern city of Bangalore operated on Lakshmi for 27 hours to separate her spinal column and kidney from that of her twin.
It is hoped the procedure will allow her to survive beyond adolescence.
"Lakshmi is stable and sound," the doctor leading the operation, Sharan Patil, told a news conference which was shown live on television channels across India.
‘Optimistic’
"She has withstood the operation, she is safe and doing well," he said.
Lakshmi is still on ventilation.
"We will keep a close watch on her for the next 48 to 72 hours and won’t move from the hospital until she stabilises," Dr Patil said.
More than 30 doctors "worked relentlessly through the night to make the operation successful," he said and added that there was "no setback at any stage of the surgery".
Dr Patil said he was "optimistic about the child’s survival".
The surgery began at 0700 local time (0130 GMT) on Tuesday and ended at 1000 local time (0430 GMT) on Wednesday.
Lakshmi’s parents, poor labourers from the northern Indian state of Bihar, would be allowed to see their daughter this afternoon.
The child has been hailed by some in her village in Bihar as the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi.
Conjoined twins are rare, occurring in about one in every 200,000 births.
They originate from a single fertilised egg, so they are always identical and of the same sex.
The overall survival rate of conjoined twins is somewhere between 5% and 25%.
Historical records over the past 500 years detail about 600 surviving sets of conjoined twins - more than 70% of which have been female twins.
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Mr Morningstarr*
Nov 10, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Anyone seen the video of this girl?
http://www.morningstarr.co.uk/forum/underworld/6131-eight-limbed-girl-has-corrective-surgery.html
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