AA: Sholapur (Maharashtra), Nov 6 (ANI): In a rare surgery, a doctor in
Sholapur has removed twin foetuses from a 16-year-old boy.
The boy, Kiran Patil, was admitted to the government hospital after he
complained of stomach pain. Doctors located a huge tumour inside his
stomach. Later, a CT scan revealed the twin foetuses inside the tumour,
which were dead.
"The operation was very successful and we removed the tumour. In the tumour,
we saw that the twin foetuses have stuck together in the developmental
process," said Dr Devidas Maske, who removed the dead twins through a
surgery on Saturday.
The removed foetuses weighed four and a half kilos, and development of hair
and nails was quite visible.
In medical history, there have been around 900 such known cases of foetuses
developing in a male and this is just the fourth such incident in which
twins had developed in the stomach.
In April 2003, doctors at a Children's Hospital in Kazakhstan discovered the
dead foetus of twin brothers when operating on a seven-year-old boy. The
foetus had developed into a tumour, but was found to have hair, nails and
bones.
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Results of the phase one clinical trials to develop a vaccine for the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are out. The Pune-based National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) took up two possible vaccines for trial in February 2005. The results were analysed after completion of one year’s follow-up this year of the last vaccinated volunteer. The results indicate that the first vaccine, which used adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector, failed to generate desired results. The second vaccine using the modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vector was on par with scientists’ expectations. Now scientists at NARI, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the National AIDS Control Organisation and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, are discussing how to go ahead with further trials of the so-far successful vaccine. The phase two trials may take off in six months if the Union Health Ministry gives its clearance. The AIDS vaccine trials work on two strategies - either neutralising antibodies or cell mediated immune response.
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