Rare Indian baby girl born with four arms and four legs undergoing surgery today.Filed Under: Indians, rare
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·       A two-year-old girl who was born with four arms and four legs is undergoing extensive surgery today in Bangalore (India) to remove the extra limbs. The surgery will continue for 40 hours.
·       A team of seventeen different categories of doctors will perform the surgery. This is the first such type of surgery is conducted. It has been conducted only in countries like Singapore etc.
·       It is a big challenge to the doctors of Sparsh Hosital, Banglore as this is the fist time they are conducting an operation of this kind on a lone baby, earlier the precedent is only on twin babies.
·       The girl is joined to a scrounging lookalike who stopped developing in the mother’s womb, while the present foetus wrapped up the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the embryonic foetus. The rare condition is called isciopagus.
·       The baby’s portion below the appetite is being removed, the main surgeons involved in orthopaedic, the second team in command is neurosurgery, for track of the blood flowing. The operation will be risky, but doctors assume that the age of the baby is the right time for such an operation.
·       The girl, Lakshmi, is named after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth and some people in her poor village in the northern state Bihar worship her as a goddess.
·       According to a press report her parents, Shambhu and Poonam, kept her in hiding after a circus apparently tried to buy the girl.
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- 6 Nov 2007 6:30 PM
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November 8th, 2007 at 1:04 am
BANGALORE, India (CNN ) — An Indian toddler born with four arms and four legs was recovering in the intensive care unit early Wednesday after surgeons in India successfully completed a mammoth 27-hour operation to remove her “parasitic twin,” head surgeon Dr. Sharan Patil said.
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Lakshmi Tatma, 2, sits in the lap of her mother, Poonam, a day before the marathon surgery.
Speaking to reporters, Patil said although 2-year-old Lakshmi Tatma is being monitored closely after a team of some 30 surgeons removed her four additional limbs, she is “stable and sound.”
The operation was conducted by specialists in pediatrics, neurosurgery, orthopedics and plastic surgery. Without it, doctors say, Lakshmi would be unlikely to survive beyond early adolescence.
“Every step of it was successful,” Patil said of the operation. “There was no set back what so ever. The team worked through the night relentlessly.”
Later in the day the girl’s parents are slated to visit her, he said. Her parents have been given regular updates but were not allowed to see their daughter during the operation. Video Watch doctors declare surgery a success »
The task began early Tuesday in the southern Indian city of Bangalore and went through the night, with surgeons working eight-hour shifts.
The conjoined twin stopped developing in the mother’s womb, and has a torso and limbs, but no head. It was joined to Lakshmi at the pelvis.
When Lakshmi was born into a poor, rural Indian family, villagers in the remote settlement of Rampur Kodar Katti in the northern state of Bihar believed she was sacred. As news of her birth spread, locals queued for a blessing from the baby.Video Watch images of Lakshmi as she prepares for surgery »
Her parents, Shambhu and Poonam Tatma, named the girl after the Hindu goddess of wealth who has four arms. However, they were forced to keep her in hiding after they were approached by men offering money in exchange for putting their daughter in a circus.
The couple, who earn just $1 a day as casual laborers, wanted her to have the operation but were unable to pay for the rare procedure, which has never before been performed in India.
After Patil visited the girl in her village from Narayana Health City hospital in Bangalore, the hospital’s foundation agreed to fund the $200,000 operation.
Planning for the surgery took a month, Patil said, and Lakshmi spent that month in the hospital.
“We are quite optimistic,” Patil told CNN earlier. “We do expect that she should be able to walk normally and lead a normal life.”
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Many villagers, however, remain opposed to surgery and are planning to erect a temple to Lakshmi, who they still revere as sacred.
Patil said Lakshmi’s parents are “very practical” and knew the risks of the medical treatment. Asked about the belief she is a reincarnation of the goddess, he said, “She’s a very charming young girl, and I’m sure she’ll grow up and be something special.”
December 10th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
yo.this is stupid.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Its not like she was born on her own will. Your stupidty is far greater here.
December 16th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Indian girl born with eight limbs leaves hospital after surgery
1 day ago
BANGALORE, India (AFP) — A two-year-old Indian girl born with four arms and four legs left hospital Saturday, more than a month after a marathon operation to remove her extra limbs, doctors said.
Lakshmi left Sparsh Hospital in the southern city of Bangalore with her parents and older brother after doctors said she had recovered from the 27-hour operation to separate her from her headless, conjoined twin.
But she will return to hospital in March for doctors to assess whether she will need reconstructive surgery, said Sharan Patil, who headed the surgical team for the operation last month.
“She’s doing well now and her parents are quite keen to take the baby home,” Patil told reporters.
“We have to respect their wishes,” he said. “I also feel further surgical steps are not of great urgency and I’m not in a hurry to perform them.”
Lakshmi, named after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, was born fused to the pelvis of a twin that had stopped developing in her mother’s womb — a condition that occurs once in 50,000 conjoined twin births.
Her parents, labourers from a remote area of poverty-stricken Bihar state, took her to Bangalore after a New Delhi hospital refused to operate, saying surgery would be too complex and costly.
The operation in Bangalore, which cost 2.4 million rupees (60,000 dollars), was performed free at the private hospital.
The child looked bright and cheerful, holding candy in her hand, as her father carried her to the hospital foyer for a brief photo session against the backdrop of an idol of Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu god of good luck.
The operation, in which surgeons separated her from the organs and body parts of her sibling, was the first of its kind to be performed in India.
Following the operation, doctors fitted her legs with splints after removing plaster casts. The hospital said she had also undergone physiotherapy to strengthen her legs.
“As of today, all her parameters are fine and all her organs are functioning well,” said Patil. “Physically, there are definitely a few things that require attention — her feet are turned in, for example.
“There’s a lot of tissue shrinkage that’s going to take place but medically all other issues have settled down.”
Any further operations will not be “in any manner comparable to what she has been through”, said Patil.
Medically, she is as well as any other child of her age “and I have no reason to believe she will not be a normal adult”, he added.
“We hope and pray it will be that way.”
Lakshmi’s father, Shambhu Tatma, said the family would travel first to Jodhpur, a city in the desert state of Rajasthan, where a charity that brought them to Bangalore is based. Then they would likely head home.
He told reporters he planned to build a small temple in his village to Lakshmi the goddess.
The girl’s operation gripped India and received saturation media coverage.
“It’s been a long journey for all of us… It had its moments of worry, its moments of joy and moments of tremendous pressure,” said surgeon Yohannan John, part of the surgical team.
“Now that she has done well, we’re happy for her and her family,” he said.
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
i hpe she has a good future a head of her good luck:)
February 27th, 2008 at 12:45 am
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