Doctors in the Indian capital, Delhi, have performed a life-changing surgery on a 17-year-old boy to remove his "parasitic" twin that was attached to his abdomen. A parasitic twin is an underdeveloped ...

Doctors in the Indian capital, Delhi, have performed a life-changing surgery on a 17-year-old boy to remove his "parasitic" twin that was attached to his abdomen. A parasitic twin is an ...

Teenager says a ‘new world has opened up’ to him following extremely rare surgery to remove 16kg twin’s limbs from his abdomen ...

Dr Asuri Krishna, Chief Surgeon at AIIMS, explained to ANI the complexity of the case. “The parasitic twin was dependent on the host for blood supply, nerve connections, and essential nutrients.

As few as 50 such cases have been documented in medical literature worldwide and in those cases the surgery had been attempted on younger children, Dr Asuri Krishna, who led the team which carried ...

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday (February 25, 2025), Asuri Krishna, Chief Surgeon for the procedure, said that conjoined twins are very rare, occurring in about 1 in 50,000 to 100,000 ...

Dr Asuri Krishna, additional professor in the surgery department, noted that when the boy visited AIIMS OPD on Jan 28, they initially mistook his covered abdomen for a carried child. Instead ...

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Such a surgery, doctors said, was carried out at the premier hospital for the first time. Dr Asuri Krishna, additional professor at the surgery department of AIIMS said such cases - medically ...

Dr Asuri Krishna, an additional professor in the surgery department at AIIMS, shared that the young boy, hailing from Balia, Uttar Pradesh, was brought to the hospital's outpatient department on ...