Dominican baby born with second head scheduled for rare surgery

[Buliwyf]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/04/dominican.two.heads.ap/index.html


scroll down. sad

[shockwave203]

the article said the second brain shows signs of activity...I doubt it is developed enough to 'think', and even if it was, she's too young to anyway.

Hope it works out

[ShellShock]

Holy fcking shit, that is one of the freakiest things I have ever seen!
In any case I hope the surguery is a succes.....

Yeap is sad but hope it goes well.

[shockwave203]

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- An infant girl died Saturday after surgery to remove a second head, her mother said.

A medical team completed the operation Friday evening but said 8-week-old Rebeca Martinez had been susceptible to infection or hemorrhaging. The baby died 12 hours after the surgery, believed to be the first of its kind.

The second head, which doctors said threatened the girl's development, grew from the top of her skull and had its own partly developed brain, ears, eyes and lips.

During the surgery, 18 surgeons, nurses and doctors had taken several rotations to cut off the undeveloped tissue, clip the veins and arteries, and close the skull using a bone and skin graft from the second head
Yeap is sad but hope it goes well.

didn't work out

Yeap very sad.

[Radram]

they shoulda just let that little girl be. she was most likely meant to have those 2 heads, god knows they probably removed the wrong brain. damn doctors looking for fame.

[Buliwyf]

Originally posted by Buliwyf
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[Jeffro]

Originally posted by =V!per=
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[frankk6969]

Originally posted by Jeffro
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