People with Unbelievable Medical Conditions

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-Not for the faint at heart-


Half Man Half Tree
32 year old Dede lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, trying to care for them. Dede, a former fisherman, has an extraordinary skin condition: he has root like structures growing out of his body - branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body.
He is known locally as ‘Tree Man’ and his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years. In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in ‘freak’ shows.
Dr Anthony Gaspari, a world expert in skin conditions from the University of Maryland travels to Indonesia to attempt to diagnosis Dede’s mysterious condition. He takes skin samples for biopsies back in the USA. What will he discover?
We go on an intimate journey with the extraordinary Dede, as he tries to eek out a living in a circus troupe to support his family, and as he is given medical help by Dr Gaspari. The identification and possible cure of his condition, could change his whole life.
Half way across the world, in Romania, farmer Ion Toader is discovered to have a similar extraordinary ‘Tree Man’ condition, with growths all over his hands. He has not been able to drive a tractor for five years. A Romanian surgeon offers to give him an operation to remove his growths.

Will it be successful, and how will it change Ion’s life?

Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis

Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (also called Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia or Lutz-Lewandowsky epidermodysplasia verruciformis) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive genetic hereditary skin disorder associated with a high risk of carcinoma of the skin. It is characterized by abnormal susceptibility to human papillomaviruses (HPVs) of the skin. The people resemble bark of trees.

Elephant Man
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Huang - 31 years old and the oldest of three siblings, since childhood Huang has suffered from Neurofibromatosis, a condition that has made his face a swollen mask of tumours. One eye is barely discernible, the other has been completely covered over by one of the many grotesquely long pieces of flabby flesh that ooze downward on his face.
His face makes up half of his body weight and has given him a hunchback. He rests it on tables when he’s sitting and holds it up with his hands when he moves around.
His mouth could be discerned by the presence of a swollen, sore-blistered tongue; tumours had knocked out all his teeth. When his family members or others spoke directly to camera in Chinese, they got an English-language voiceover. Only Huang got subtitles, his deformed mouth most likely making his words difficult to understand for Chinese speakers as well.
The one day, Huang takes aBold step, to travel Hundred of miles for the first time to the City, to undergo a potentially life-saving surgery, that will remove the malignant tumor and help him regain his self dignity within his community.




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In March 2003 doctors at Calcutta's Institute of Child Health made an astonishing and ground-breaking medical discovery. Quite by accident they had unearthed the only family in the world known to be struck by more than one case of progeria, a rare and incurable genetic disease. There are currently only 48 known cases worldwide, all of them isolated and seemingly random. But the doctors in Calcutta were faced with a mother who had given birth to five affected children.
Progeria is caused by a single tiny defect in a child's genetic code, but it has devastating and life-changing consequences. On average, a child born with this disease will be dead by the age of 13. As they see their bodies fast forward through the normal process of ageing they develop striking physical symptoms, often including premature baldness, heart disease, thinning bones and arthritis.
The 80-Year-Old Children follows Dr Chattopadhyay who diagnosed the Khan children in 2003 as he returns to Calcutta to treat them. This is the first time that the family have been filmed for a documentary. Ikramul, 17, and Rehanna, 19, the two eldest progeria children, see this film as their opportunity to tell the world their story before they die.
The 80-Year-Old Children describes the race to solve this scientific riddle and ultimately cure this devastating disease. It also offers a moving testament to human dignity under tragic circumstances.


Curse Of the Mermaid
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Milagros Cerrón is one of the world's most unusual babies. She was born with sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome, a condition in which the legs are fused together. This rare birth disorder affects one in every 70,000-100,000 babies (it occurs with about the same frequency as conjoined twins).

What makes Milagros really special is the fact that she is still alive. Aptly, her name means 'miracles'. She is one of only two known survivors with this condition worldwide - the other is a 16-year-old US girl named Tiffany Yorks. Almost all sirenomelia babies die within days of delivery owing to serious defects in vital organs, particularly in the kidneys, bladder and associated ducts.

Milagros was born to poor parents from an Andean village near Huancayo in Peru. At less than one month old, she was plucked from the obscurity of her rural roots, taken to Peru's capital city, Lima, and paraded through a national media circus.

She became the pet project of the charismatic and politically ambitious plastic surgeon Dr Luis Rubio. He orchestrated both the medical care and the media attention that Milagros was subsequently subject to. An eight-hour-long operation to separate her legs was broadcast live on Peruvian national TV in May 2005. Dr Rubio was filmed, scalpel in his hand and microphone at his mouth, proudly spouting progress reports to attendant cameras whilst performing the surgery.

Milagros became known nationally as the Little Mermaid. She, a symbol of hope for a country in deep economic depression, and Dr Rubio, the hero who came to her rescue.

The surgery appears to have been successful so far. Milagros is now well enough to attempt to stand up, although she can't maintain stability because she has no hipbone sockets. She will require more surgical interventions over the coming 10 to 15 years in order to reconstruct her urethra and focal places, which are abnormal. It isn't yet clear whether or not further surgery on her legs could help her walk.




Boy with the new head
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Petero Byakatonda lives in a remote village in Uganda. Born with an extremely rare disorder, his skull is being forced into a cone shape, squashing his brain and destroying his eye-sight. He has been flown to Dallas, Texas for life-saving surgery from a leading US surgeon.

Petero suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as Crouzon's Syndrome or Crouzon's Disease. It affects just one in ten thousand new-borns and needs to be corrected within a few months of birth. Because Petero's village is so isolated he was left untreated. It's extraordinary that he is still alive.

In Crouzon's Disease the bones of the skull fuse together prematurely, so the skull can't expand as the brain grows. The brain is forced to grow in the direction of least resistance.

Dr Kenneth Salyer the leading craniofacial surgeon who will treat Petero explains "Petero has ended up with a steeple-shaped skull because this was the weakest area of the skull. So the brain grew up instead of forward. This can result in constriction of the brain to the point where there may be herniation at the base of the brain and death".

Petero's trip to Dallas and his subsequent treatment was made possible by a charity headed by Dr Salyer called The World Craniof



Born with two heads

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Story of Manar Maged: On March 31st 2004 in Aghur, Egypt a young woman, Naglaa Mohammed Yehiya, is rushed to hospital in labour six weeks early. She is expecting to give birth to twins, confirmed in earlier scans. The first twin is born normally and is quite healthy. The second twin is causing problems. After several hours the hospital need to conduct an emergency caesarean section to deliver the second twin.
In a condition known as Craniopagus Parasiticus a second parasitic head has developed attached to the host head. This is an extremely rare condition and only about 10 cases have ever been recorded. Of these, only three have been born alive.
The condition comes about when the egg splits to form identical twins. This would normally occur at 10 weeks. However with Naglaa it didn't occur until 13 weeks resulting in conjoined twins. Damage with the blood supply in the second twin made it draw blood from the join at the skull forming a parasitic connection. Manar's little heart could not pump enough blood to support two bodies, so the second body could not develop. The second skull and brain were able to develop more or less normally.

The parasitic head is very much alive and displays reflexive behaviour.



Girl with 8 limbs
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This Documentary tells the story of Lakshmi Tatma, the girl with eight limbs.
Two-year-old Lakshmi was born with one of the world's rarest physical abnormalities. Joined at the pelvis to her half-formed conjoined twin.
Lakshmi Tatama is an Indian girl born in 2005 in a village in Araria district, Bihar, having "4 arms and 4 legs." She was actually a pair of ischiopagus conjoined twins where one twin was headless due to its head atrophying and chest underdeveloping in the womb. The result looked like one child with four arms and four legs.
In her remote Indian village she is revered as a living god. With exclusive access, this film follows Lakshmi's family on an epic emotional journey from their rural home to a hospital in Bangalore where her parents must decide whether to proceed with potentially life-threatening surgery to remove her extra limbs.



Polymelia

Polymelia is a birth defect involving limbs, in which the affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs. In humans and most land-dwelling animals, this means having five or more limbs. The extra limb is most commonly shrunken and/or deformed.
Sometimes an embryo started as conjoined twins, but one twin degenerated completely except for one or more limbs, which end up attached to the other twin. Sometimes small extra legs between the normal legs are caused by the body axis forking.

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A live female infant (1.5kg) delivered by cesarean section at 01.35hours on 23rd August 2006 on account of Ante-partum Hemorrhage (APH) secondary to placenta previa type IIA with breach presentation in the labor ward theater of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City Nigeria. Apgar score was three in one and two at five minutes. Multiple congenital abnormalities were apparent at birth (fig.1), single centrally located eye, absence of the nose, small mouth, and extra digit on the right upper phalanx with spinal bifida occulta. Pronounced dead ten minutes following delivery.
The 37year old mother who resides in Benin City was unbooked and has three normal, healthy living children; two females and one male.

2. One Eyed Baby : Cyclopia

The baby born in Nigeria suffers from Cyclopia (also cyclocephaly or synophthalmia) – a rare birth defect characterized by failure of embryonic forebrain to divide into two orbital cavities for the eyeballs resulting in one eye. Typically the face lacks a functional nose. The cause being related to certain toxins and high doses of anticancer therapy.

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Grabehag research sa akong TS nga klasmet oist... hahaha

wala nay update ani na thread? waiting for another interesting medical conditions.

ataya bay , nag luod man ahahhahha cge'g research wew hooooooo ..

haha gross hehe

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para sa mga Fetish ... hehe


10 Most Crazily Weird Paraphilias



Paraphilia is a term used to describe sexual arousal to objects, situations, or individuals that are not part of normative stimulation and that may cause distress or serious problems for the paraphiliac or persons associated with him or her. A paraphilia is a condition involving *** fetishes where a person’s sexual arousal and gratification depend on fantasizing about, and engaging in, sexual behavior that is atypical and extreme. [WARNING: contains adult material which is not safe for work.]
10. Agalmatophilia


Agalmatophilia is a paraphilia concerned with the sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin or other similar figurative object. The attraction may include the desire for actual sexual contact with the objects, a fantasy of having sexual (or non-sexual) encounters with the animate or inanimate instances of the preferred objects, the act of watching encounters between the objects themselves, or sexual pleasure gained from thoughts of being transformed or transforming another into the preferred object. Agalmatophilia may also encompass Pygmalionism which describes a state of love for an object of one’s own creation. Okay this might be getting common but still its weird and shitty. One of the forms of Agalmatophilia is Robot Fetishism (also called ASFR or technosexuality) which is a fetishistic attraction to humanoid robots; also to people acting like robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A less common fantasy involves transformation into a robot.
8. Formicophilia


Formicophila a form of zoophilia, is the sexual interest in being crawled upon or nibbled by small insects, such as ants. It is more common in developing countries, perhaps because homes are infested with insects. This paraphilia often involves the application of insects to the genitals, but other areas of the body may also be the focus. The desired effect may be a tickling or stinging sensation, or the infliction of psychological distress on another person.
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Dacryphilia (also known as dacrylagnia) is a form of paraphilia in which one is aroused by tears or sobbing. Dacryphilia is primarily associated with males. The term covers all forms of pleasure from the tears of others. The arousal is achieved when viewing a person in emotional distress. It carries the theme where a person induces another (the bottom) to cry, or otherwise show a strong emotion. This differs from the usual practice of crying during intercourse since it involves the person’s desire for the other to be in some real suffering or broken heart rather than fake show of crying.
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7. Dendrophilia


Alright you would be surprised to know what is dendrophilia because it is that stupid! Once it literally meant “love for trees” but since some people have to adjust *** in each kind of love so here we introduce you to dendrophilia. It is a paraphilia in which people are sexually attracted to or sexually aroused by trees. This may involve sexual contact or veneration as phallic symbols or both. Yes total shit! phew.. extremely rare.
6. Nasophilia


Nose fetishism or Nasophilia is the sexual fetish or paraphilia for the nose. Yea that’s right for nose! and this stinks! Nasophiliacs have the urge to penetrate someone’s nose, usually an attractive one. This may include the sexual attraction to a specific form of physical variation of appearance (such as shape and size), or a specific area (for example; the bridge or nostrils). The fetish may manifest itself in a desire for actual physical contact and interaction, or specific fantasies such as the desire to penetrate the nostrils. Other fantasies may include the desire to observe or experience a transformation of a nose with reference to an element of a fictional work such as Pinocchio, or ideas concerning the transformation of the nose into that of another creatures’ like a pig’s snout as a means of sexually humiliating a partner or acquaintance.

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5. Necrozoophilia



Necrozoophilia is the sexual attraction to the corpses of animals. Wow, take two of the most bizarre fetishes, Necrophilia (sexual attraction to corpses) and Zoophilia (fixation to practice *** with animals) and you put them together. I wouldn’t be surprised if a person practicing incest shouts, “Pmmff…****ing sickos.” Ladies and gentlemen, when road kill goes from sport to passion. When hunting really bring a whole new meaning to the term, “one with nature.” When the world gets just what we all have been waiting for all these years, people jacking off on dead squirrels. I present to you, Necrozoophilia!
4. Mechanophilia


Mechaphilia or Mechanophilia, a paraphilia describing a sexual attraction to machines such as bicycles, motor vehicles, helicopters, and airplanes. It is treated as a crime in some nations with perpetrators being placed on a *** offenders’ register after prosecution. Motorcycles are often portrayed as sexualized fetish objects to those that desire them. Pleasures derived from the physio-pleasures involved, e.g. tactile sensations of using the controls, the colors, the smells etc.
3. Asphyxiophilia



Erotic asphyxiation is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal. It is also called asphyxiophilia, autoerotic asphyxia, hypoxyphilia, or breath control play. Colloquially, a person engaging in the activity is sometimes called a gasper. The erotic interest in asphyxiation is also classified as a paraphilia. “The carotid arteries (on either side of the neck) carry oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the brain. When these are compressed, as in strangulation or hanging, the sudden loss of oxygen to the brain and the accumulation of carbon dioxide can increase feelings of giddiness, lightheadness, and pleasure, all of which will heighten masturbatory sensations. Historically, the practice of autoerotic asphyxiation has been documented since the early 17th century. It was first used as a treatment for erectile dysfunction.[5] The idea for this most likely came from subjects who were executed by hanging. Observers at public hangings noted male victims developed an erection, sometimes remaining after death (death erection), and occasionally ejaculated when being hanged. Note that, however, ejaculation occurs in hanging victims after death because of disseminated muscle relaxation; this is a different mechanism from that sought by autoerotic asphyxiation practitioners. And by the way its extremely dangerous to do, you might kill yourself in a few moments.
2. Salirophilia


Salirophilia is an umberella term because it contains a number of fetishes you would like to puke on! Salirophiliacs to be aroused by unclean locales, such as an alleyway, or a dirty room/bathroom; wearing the same clothing for many days at a time; or not bathing, from mere days to several weeks. So we see it has many disgusting types. So did it make you puke? Yes puke! puke is one of the fetishes in this type. But puke makes us puke, right? Well, not people who practice emetophilia. The act of throwing up, especially on a sexual partner, is the biggest of turn-ons for emetophiles. Mysophiliacs one the general may find dirt, soiled underwear, feces, or vomit to be sexually arousing. Similarly coprophilia, even disgusti-er! is the paraphilia involving sexual pleasure from feces. Omorashi is a fetish subculture recognized predominantly in Japan, in which participants experience arousal from having a full bladder or a sexual attraction to someone else experiencing the feeling of a full bladder. Outside of Japan, it is not usually identified separately from urolagnia (urine fetish – one of the kind) though however they are different things. Westerners who do make the distinction commonly use phrases such as “bladder desperation” or “panty wetting.” Now coming to the most ugly type that is Gokkun, in which several men ejaculate into a container for the receiver to drink.
1. Spectrophilia


Spectrophila is the sexual attraction to ghosts. A Spectrophile, or an Amityville Whore, if you will, basically jerks off to the thoughts of ghosts. They leave their windows open so hopefully a ghost just might be floating on by, and suddenly get in the mood to ravage them. I made the mistake of clicking on a link in regards to an article on Spectrophilia. My eyes popped when the article came to this roaring conclusion: “For those seeking sexual union with a ghost, however, the only solution is to seek out haunted mansions and hope for the best, or try to coerce the ghost into experiencing the pleasures of the flesh again. There is hope, apparently. With some luck, death need not necessarily be ‘the great abstinence.’” So, this is what it has come down to, coercing ghost into experiencing pleasures of the flesh. Aside from how sick and absurd the whole thing is, why don’t I take a look at this from a perspective that there really are ghosts and they are tempted by people. I have to say that, for all we know, ghost *** might be much better than alive ***. We don’t know. We never will! The mere fact that you have me actually thinking through the concept of “ghost ***” is enough!

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Parasitic Twin (Fetus in Fetus)

The independent twin is called the autosite.

It is a exaggerated case of siamese twins. Two twins don´t get to separate completely when they are zygotes and they are united by some zone. One of these twins grows healthy whereas the other degenerates, remaining inside the healthy twin and depending completely on him. It is unkown why these twins don´t separate correctly. Unlike conjoined twins, one ceases development during gestation and is vestigial to a mostly fully-formed, otherwise healthy individual twin. The undeveloped twin is defined as parasitic, rather than conjoined, because it is incompletely formed or wholly dependent on the body functions of the complete fetus.
The Phenomenon of the

Parasitic Twin

The case of Alamjan Nematilaev, a seven year old who was "pregnant" with his own twin, brought the condition to the public's eye, but the truth of the matter is that condition known as fetus in fetu or parasitic twin is one that has been known for quite some time. This is an extremely rare condition that has only been verified ninety times in the world. In the case of Alamjan Nematilaev, movements were located in his abdomen, leading his doctors to believe that he had a severe cyst that needed to be removed. Upon going to work, though, the doctors discovered that instead of a cyst, the issue that was causing the boy's problems was essentially a fetus.

Alamjan Nematilaev's case is made even more extraordinary due tot he fact that the fetus had the rough configuration of a human being; it had a head, four limbs, hands, fingernails, hair and recognizable if misshapen face. In most cases, the fetus that resides in the person who has this condition is much more primitive and only marginally recognizable as being a human fetus. The fetuses that are found in these cases are always discovered to be without brains and incapable of living away from the person within whom they developed. This condition is a parasitic one, where the fetus needs the host to survive, giving rise to the more common name of parasitic twin.

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Proteus Syndrome
This medical condition results to abnormal growth of the bones and skins, and is generally associated with the growth of tumors. There are only about 200 recorded cases worldwide since the discovery of the disease in 1979.
Fetus in Fetu
Fetus in fetu is an extremely rare and bizarre medical condition where a twin is either partly externally or completely internally attached to its twin during pregnancy. There was a recent recorded case of Fetus in fetu where a boy who was 7 years old then was found out to have been carrying his twin only when they saw something move inside his stomach.
Diprosopus
This medical anomaly is also referred to as Cranio-facial duplication. This rare medical abnormality is characterized by the duplication of the human head. This anomaly is caused by a protein known as “sonic hedgehog” homolog. An excess amount of this type of protein leads to this medical anomaly.




iphallia, penile duplication (PD), diphallic terata, or diphallasparatus, is a medical condition in which a male infant is born with two *****es. This is an extremely rare disorder with only approximately 100 cases of diphallia recorded since the first, reported by Johannes Jacob Wecker in 1609 . Its occurrence is one in five and a half million men in the United States.
When diphallia is present, it is usually accompanied by other congenital anomalies such as renal, vertebral, hindgut or anorectal duplication. There is also a higher risk of spina bifida. Infants born with PD and its related conditions have a higher death rate from various infections associated with their more complex renal or colorectal systems.It is thought diphallia occurs in the fetus between the 23rd and 25th days of gestation when an injury, chemical stress, or malfunctioning homeobox genes hamper proper function of the caudal cell mass of the fetal mesoderm as the urogenital sinus separates from the genital tubercle and rectum to form the *****.This rare condition has been documented in pigs and other mammals.[citation needed]Diphallia is a medical condition and should not be confused with genital bisection, which is an elective procedure which involves the splitting of the *****. There have been many cases of diphallia males[weasel words] leading excellent sexual lives able to have full penile vaginal intercourse.[citation needed] Some diphallia males have fathered babies with their female partners.[citation needed] Most male babies sired by diphallia males have normal *****es.[citation needed]

Diphallia




Elephantiasis

The genetic outline of a freeloader with the intention of causes the raw disfiguring disease elephantiasis has been unravelled via scientists.
The genome of the worm Brugia malayi, reported clothed in the journal discipline via US plus UK experts, may possibly head start finally headed for new to the job drugs before vaccines.
More than 130 million nation worldwide are infected via this before like worms.
One chief professional understood it was a "scandal" existing, inferior plus effectual drugs were not extra generally available.
Elephantiasis is a indication of an higher plus long-standing infection by these parasites, plus bottle basis considerable inflammation of the legs plus genitals.
It is recognised because the second-leading basis of disability at the back of sightlessness worldwide plus is represent clothed in 80 countries.

"We aspiration with the intention of our statistics willpower allow equally ourselves plus additional inquiries teams approximately the the human race headed for relocate forward"

This disease is a type of malaria and is a parasitic disease. Mosquitoes transmit this disease and the nematode responsible for this disease is known as Wuchereria bancrofti. This disease is typical to southern Asia and has an epidemic form in central India. The most apparent visual appearance of this disease is the congealing of the skin and the tissues that surround it. The lower part of the legs are most affected by this disease and tend to become like an elephants foot; thus the name elephantisis. Incidentally, this disease is also known as filaria. This disease can be life threatening if left untreated. Though, medications are available in other forms of treatments; however, herbal medication is the safest resort to recuperate from this illness. In women this disease could affect the breasts and the vulva also; although, this disease affects the genitals seldomly. This disease is medically called W. bancrofti, Brugia timori and Filariasis.

Garlic is supposed to be and is a very good herbal treatment for filaria. Though, garlic smells abominably and the taste is acrid; however, if the juice 4 cloves of garlic are imbibed for a month the symptoms of filaria would be resolved in a month. Since, this is an herbal treatment no side effects are seen and so it can be taken without any medical consultation. However, one should be careful not to mix medications.

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OMG!

A 9-year old girl in Athens, Greece, went to the hospital with severe stomach pains and it turns out...she was carrying the embryo of her twin in there!

NAST!!!!



Says the story: "Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.

Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births."

So is that, like, a parasitic twin? Conjoined twins? Siamese twins? Hell, I don't know.

Kinda sad. But still "ewwww"-inducing.

Reminds me of that scene in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when Professor Quirrell unwraps his head, turns around, and there's Voldemort's maggoty lookin' face! Gross!!

Anyhoobs, let's take a trip down memory lane and visit Lori & Dori/Reba/George Schappell, the oldest living conjoined twins in the world. Dori changed her name to Reba, then last year, she ch

Ultrasound Interactive Case Study: Parasitic Twin

Case Presentation by: Dr. Gidda Venkat Ramaiah
Sonoscan, Gouri Clinic Street
Nidadavole, India

Description of image: Parasitic Twin
20 yr. Gr2, first baby died at birth, cause unknown. No relevant history.
Current pregnancy: 25w. by LMP. MH Regular. This the first visit to the Obstetrician.
Sent for routine scan. Scan GA 19w. Polyhydramnios. A single, otherwise normal SGA fetus with a parasitic twin as a soft tissue mass with 2 cysts & 2 Limbs with proximal & single distal long bones & fingers fused to the lower face region.
Pregnancy terminated.

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THE LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST : CHANAK



Harlequin type ichthyosis
First post, hope it's ok!

I went through all the entries and didn't see this, so I figured I'd share.



Harlequin type ichthyosis


a skin disease, is the most severe form of congenital ichthyosis, characterized by a thickening of the keratin layer in fetal human skin. In sufferers of the disease, the skin contains massive, diamond-shaped scales, and tends to have a reddish color. In addition, the eyes, ears, mouth, and other appendages may be abnormally contracted. The scaly keratin greatly limits the child's movement. Because the skin is cracked where normal skin would fold, it is easily pregnable by bacteria and other contaminants, resulting in serious risk of fatal infection. Sufferers are known as harlequin fetuses, harlequin babies, or harlequins.
The harlequin-type designation comes from both the baby's apparent facial expression and the diamond-shape of the scales (resembling the costume of Arlecchino), which are caused by severe hyperkeratosis. The disease can be diagnosed in the uterus by way of fetal skin biopsy or by morphologic analysis of amniotic fluid cells obtained by amniocentesis. In addition, doctors can now usually recognize common features of the disease through ultrasound, and follow up with 3D ultrasound to diagnose the condition.

Warning, this pics might be graphic to some people. Video included.


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Babies born with harlequin type ichthyosis often only live a couple of days. There are a couple of cases of the children surviving, such as the oldest known victim, who is 18. There is also a family of four girls who all have it.

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ayoko na pahuway sa ko .... whew

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kamo nasd ... ahahhaha

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hyperthymestic syndrome the best gift that i had...

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I think i'm gonna throw up..
I'm very interested with these things but can't seem to stomach much of it..