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A baby girl named Itzmara was born through a cesarean delivery, and 24 hours later, doctors performed a C-section on her too , because she had absorbed her twin in the womb, Mamás Latinas reported in March . When the mother, Mónica Vega of Barranquilla, Colombia, had an ultrasound at seven months pregnant, doctors discovered she had two umbilical cords inside her. One connected baby Itzmara to Vega, but the other connected Itzmara to a mass that was her parasitic twin. Ultrasound image of a term pregnancy When doctors noticed this, they diagnosed Itzmara with "fetus in fetu," a rare condition where a malformed fetus is found in the body of its twin. The doctors said they needed to deliver Itzmara right away through a C-section so they could then operate on the baby. They were worried that if they didn't remove the parasitic twin inside Itzmara, the mass could grow and injure the baby's organs. So after delivering Itzmara via C-section, the doctors p...

This is a 35yrs old  Bricklayer who accidentally fell off from  a Storey building while at work and landed with the left lateral anterior Neck, on a hammer 🔨 standing on the ground with the handle facing upwards. This pierced via the anterior and exited on the posterior. However, as God may have it, he was *not in any respiratory distress* and *vitals are relatively stable on presentation* Being the *Senior Registrar on call in Ear, Nose and Throat and Head and Neck Surgeon*, I called out my 2 ENT Consultants, quickly raised alarm  and invited the Vascular Surgeons, Burns and plastic, Traumatologist / Spine Surgeons, Anaesthetist, & Theatre Peri-op Nurses informed to get set..!! Necessary urgent Investigations were done, thanks to our Med. Laboratory Scientist Friends, who acted promptly as the urgency demands, gave us 4 units of screened / cross matched blood and provided the results needed as fast as possible. ... Within a short while, al...

As 'Pink-tober' comes to an end, I'd like to take the opportunity to share my story and educate our nursing group about the kind of cancer I had: inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). For the oncology nurses in the group, you may have heard about this rare and very aggressive form of breast cancer but, what you might not know, is that there is a specific treatment protocol, much different from other breast cancer treatments. It is based on research from MD Anderson in Houston, and it is helping decrease mortality rates all over the world... I noticed a small red spot on my left breast, about the size of a thumbprint in late 2014. I thought I had bumped into something and dismissed it as nothing. A month later, it was still there and hadn't changed so, I scheduled my mammogram which was due anyway. With Thanksgiving, family visits, Christmas, the New Year, and starting a new job, I didn't give the results much thought until I received them in the mail:...

Harlequin ichthyosis is a severe genetic disorder that mainly affects the skin. Infants with this condition are born with very hard, thick skin covering most of their bodies. The skin forms large, diamond-shaped plates that are separated by deep cracks (fissures). These skin abnormalities affect the shape of the eyelids, nose, mouth, and ears, and limit movement of the arms and legs. Restricted movement of the chest can lead to breathing difficulties and respiratory failure. The skin normally forms a protective barrier between the body and its surrounding environment. The skin abnormalities associated with harlequin ichthyosis disrupt this barrier, making it more difficult for affected infants to control water loss, regulate their body temperature, and fight infections. Infants with harlequin ichthyosis often experience an excessive loss of fluids (dehydration) and develop life-threatening infections in the first few weeks of life. It used to be very rare for affected...

Few years ago, 2014, during the Goodluck Jonathan (the erstwhile President of Nigeria) administration the west sent a biological weapon to Africa, Nigeria was a major target. A human being loaded with EBOLA virus came into this country landed in Lagos the most populous state in the country for to attend an oblivious conference. That man was diagnosed of Ebola and would not cooperate with the care givers. It took one brave woman Dr. Ameyo Adedevoh , who dealt him a defeating closeline and single handedly restrained him to the bed. She is said to be the greatest grand daughter of Nigeria's foremost founding father of the Nigerian state, Ajayi Crowther. She is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria by placing the patient zero , Patrick Sawyer , in quarantine despite pressures from the Liberian government. When threatened by Liberian officials who wanted the patient to be discharged to attend a conference, she resisted the pressu...

Umbilical cord length varies, with a range of 35–70 cm at birth being regarded as normal. Both shorter and longer cords are associated with increased rates of intrapartum complications. UC length is thus a significant factor when assessing fetal risk. Antenatal estimation of cord length is however extremely difficult. Traction force produced by fetal movements in the first trimester is assumed to be the crucial growth stimulus of the cord. A short UC is thus associated with reduced fetal movement and all its respective causes (e.g. malformation, myopathies, neuropathies, oligohydramnios). What is a short umbilical cord? An umbilical cord is considered short if it is less than 35 cm at term, although some researchers and clinicians consider 40 cm or even 45 cm to be short. Complications of short umbilical cords for the baby including: Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) Cerebral palsy Umbilical cord rupture Breech presentation Miscarriage/sti...

Stories has it that nomads of sub-saharan Africa has a rite or culture of having sex with their cattle's. The veracity of this claim is yet to be verified. Recently somewhere in northern Nigeria, certain sheep was found to have delivered of what looks like a human baby with animal features. There's great suspicion that this could be a product of bestiality. Bestiality is a word describing sex between a human and an animal. There are few things stranger or more repulsive than bestiality, but this is the worse form of human relations. When you say bestiality, you can hear the word beast, which is a good clue to the meaning. People who are into bestiality like having sex with animals. It doesn't matter what animal is involved: if someone is having sex with something alive that's not a person, it's bestiality. Bestiality is illegal and usually considered very wrong and harmful to everyone involved. In the 1970s, world ren...

A very hysterical parent came running to the hospital when they observed the persistent growing of their 8 months old baby's breasts, they needed answers to douse their fears. So the doctor requested for a breast examination for the infant. Ultrasound report shows no unusual growth, cyst or malign/benign mass. It was just normal breasts tissue. It's normal for newborn babies (boys and girls) to have swollen, enlarged breasts and/or lumps under the nipple. They're almost always benign and due to exposure to maternal hormones in the womb. The same hormones that cause the mother's breasts to swell and stimulates milk glands can do the same to the baby's breasts. What is premature thelarche? Premature thelarche is enlargement of the breasts in infant girls. Most often, breast enlargement is the only abnormality. It is occasionally the first sign of early (precocious) puberty. This is more likely if the breasts become enlarged after ages ...

There has been an increasing concerns in connection to the abuse of prescription drugs around the world. A more subtle but terrifying trend which began in the 2000's is the use of paracetamol for cooking meat, mostly seen among food vendors. According to our findings, the reason these food vendors use paracetamol in cooking meat is to tenderize the meat to avoid the long hours of boiling in order to meet the increasing demands of their customers. Hard meat tends to take so long on the fire to soften but adding the paracetamol to it softens it quickly reducing the amount of time to cook it naturally but bear it in mind that it has some serious health complications. Studies have shown that, when the drug is used for cooking, it breaks down into other forms which may not possess its original properties as a pain killer and thus could lead to high acidity. Also, when this process occurs, the drug is hydrolysed into what we call 4-aminophenol, which is ...

Cancer cells have a parasitic propensity in the primary host but their capacity to transit between individuals is severely restrained by two factors: a lack of a route for viable cell transfer and immune recognition in allogeneic, secondary recipients. Several examples of transmissible animal cancers are now recognised. In humans, the only natural route for transmission is via the haemochorial placenta which is permissive for cell traffic. There are three special examples of this occurring in utero: 1. maternal to foetus, 2. intraplacental twin to twin leukaemias 3. choriocarcinoma-extra-embryonic cells to mother.  Scientists have established beyond doubt that in rare cases cancer can be transmitted in the womb, following the birth of a baby to a woman with leukaemia. A team at the Institute of Cancer Research , a college of the University of London, working with colleagues in Japan, found that the cancer had defied accepted theories of biology. Leukaemia ...