In an incredible medical accomplishment, a multi-disciplinary team of doctors from the Narayana Health City, Bengaluru, India performed the world’s first ‘Patent Ductus Arteriosus’ (PDA) stenting on thoracopagus twins with conjoined hearts. The surgery marked the region’s first successful thoracopagus separation surgery and the surviving baby is reportedly the third miracle baby in the world to have been saved by this type of surgery. Thoracopagus twins usually have their bodies joined from the neck to the upper abdomen but for these Mauritian twins, the hearts were fused as well.
Instead of having four heart chambers in each, the twins together shared seven chambers, and therefore, the chances of survival were extremely slim. To help the twins survive, the Mauritian Health Department reached out to the international hospitals for advanced and expert care; however, given the complexity…
