Parasite Twins

I watched a documentary the other night about parasite twins. I posted a pic of the twins that were featured. This is the 2nd set of parasite twins in the past 100 years, according to the show.

These Egyptian twin girls were joined at the head, their brains fused together. The larger twin had all of the main organs, including a heart that pumped blood to both of them. The "parasitic" twin received all nutrients from the larger twin.

These 2 girls were successively seperated, which was the 1st recorded time that this has occurred. Unfortunately, "success" means that the parasitic twin died upon separation, since she lacked all vital organs.

The trickiest part of the operation (and the longest) was trying to determine the borders of each girl's brain were, since the two brains were fused together.