Diprosopus

SavageGlow · #1 ● 08-14-2024, 08:51 PM

Case 1 was a female stillbirth. Maternal age was 29 years old and paternal age was 28 years old. The parents were a nonconsanguineous couple. They had a previous 5-year-old healthy son. Gestational age was 36 weeks; weight was 1600 grams. Clinical features were anencephaly, craniofacial duplication and diaphragmatic hernia. It was a dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy. The first twin was a healthy female live newborn weighing 2,200 grams. There were no exposures to teratogenic agents during pregnancy. Prenatal ultrasound at 17 weeks of gestation showed a fetus with exencephaly, left diaphragmatic hernia, heart with four chambers displaced by the intestinal loops, the presence of kidneys, undamaged spine, and normal amniotic fluid volume. The facial anomaly was detected prenatally. The other fetus was normal. Neither prenatal/postnatal karyotype nor necropsy was performed. The external examination showed anencephaly; tetraophthalmos (two very close eyeballs were placed at the midline, and the remaining two eyes were laterally located); two lateral noses; two lateral oral cavities and unilateral cleft lip and palate of the left oral cavity; two dysplastic lateralized ears; and a structure that seemed like a remnant of a pinna located in the midline of the cephalic pole. The structures of the trunk and upper andlower limbs were not affected. External genitalia were female (Figs. 3; Appendices A and B).

Mr.NoCredit · #2 ● 08-15-2024, 04:09 AM

That would have to be brutal to a person to find out you’ve got some kind of anomaly growing inside of you. I couldn’t imagine. I don’t know but I could see the hospital trying to not have the mother see it.. that’s just scary no matter what.