Research Paper On Siamese Twins

I would usually read books like this, but I would like to mention how interesting it was while reading. One of Us has valuable information and stories of conjoined twins, not only in the United States but all around the world. I found it interesting how the author uses medical term and quantitative data to identify the different types of twin and how many are there. I did not know there were so many different types of conjoined twin, and where they are attached or infused. Alice Dreger purpose of this book is analyzing case studies both past and present, along with questions and assumptions about anatomy and normality, and transforms our understanding of how we are all intricately and inextricably joined. She also explored the separation surgery on conjoined twins. Providing historical and contemporary evidence that most adults conjoined twins do not desire to be separated, and that many operations are carried out on children too young, by individualizing them at all cost which may result in a tragic event.

There are a number of possible types of these births. These include thoracopagus, the most common, affecting 35% of all conjoined twin births, where the chest wall is shared, and often the heart. Pygopagus is another type, occurring in 19% of all cases, where the twins are joined at the buttocks. Two significantly less occurring patterns are ischiopagus, 6%, connected at the tailbone, and craniopagus, 2%, with a fused skull. Some other commonly occuring types include cephalopagus, with the upper torso and back of the cranium fused, and dicephalus, having two heads and necks connected to one body. Cephalopagus and craniopagus twins are rarely operated on, because the brain is such a delicate organ on which to operate, especially when shared brain tissue is involved. Other types include parapagus, a lateral fusion of the lower half of the body, and omphalopagus, joined frontally at the midsection. Finally there is parasitic twinning, where one twin is dependant upon the other for life, and often one is misformed, lacking organs or fully formed parts (www.twinstuff.com).

Twins often like the same things and think alike, so it is inevitable that they will become close. There will always be a shoulder to cry on or someone to have your back. The other twin is always pushing the other to do their best. When one of them is sick, the healthy one can bring home the homework and notes for that day.

Growin up with a Twin is amazing in so many ways. Never being lonely and always having a friend right by your side is one of the many reasons. Sadly, there can also be some challenges. Now, these challenges may not be anything extreme. But this particular challenge I'm about to explain is one I know a lot of twins face. Rather be a Set of boys, girls or boy and girl. And that challenge is one Twin growing up with the responsibility of the other. Now that may not sound so bad but It did affect me growing up taking the responsibility of my Twin sister, Jonesha.

I can only recall one time in my life where I was truly alone. It was a moment of peace and quiet; the calm before the storm. It only lasted for ten minutes. After those ten meager minutes, my first ten minutes, the silence was interrupted. An intruder weaseled his way next to me. That intruder would come to be known as my twin brother. Our twin status became a label that has persisted through seventeen years and is often met with an expression of disbelief or apparent confusion. Fraternal twins are not uncommon, yet people still react as if they have seen a unicorn, or quite frankly, two. We constantly get poked and asked if the other feels it, and are tested to see if we can read each other’s minds. For the record, I don’t feel his pain, but occasional twin telepathy has definitely happened. Regardless, I don’t feel special for being “just a twin”, because this has always been my life. I have been and always will be a fraternal twin.

All data collection and storage was approved by the institutional review board to ensure proper handling of protected health information under the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act. The diagnosis of TTTS was based on a monochorionic-diamniotic twin pregnancy with a single placenta, thin dividing membrane, and matching gender twins, with polyhydramnios in the recipient (>8 cm deepest vertical pocket of amniotic fluid) and oligohydramnios in the donor (<0.05 was assigned statistical significance.

Most twins didn't survive the experiments. In fact, out of the 3,000 twins that were captured, less than 200 escaped. The twins that survived were often separated, unless extremely lucky.

Amber McCullough from Minnesota travelled to Colorado to deliver her twins. She delivered Hannah and Olivia through cesarean section but sadly after 5 hour separation procedure, Doctors were unable to save Olivia.

These two were separated at birth and adopted by separate parents as part of a study focused on identical twins.

The twin babies, wonderful creation of God, who are created with a hidden connection and bond between their hearts and minds with and identical figure, and physical appearance. They are born together, grown together, lived together by sharing life, love, laugh, and everything. Each one spent her/ his most part of the time and moments with their twin! So it’s truly inhuman and cruel to split them, because they are even created together by the Almighty God. This is what happened in the Louis Wise Orphanage Services, were the twins were splitted and given to different families of different economic status in completely different places to conduct a “secret study” on the twin babies about how different social situation, economical conditions,

Chapter three made me understand more on things coming towards twins. Growing up I always thought that being a twin you always had to look alike or you had to be the same sex. I hardly understood why some of them weren’t the same sex or didn’t look alike. While reading chapter three I finally understood how genes work when it comes towards twins. Monozygotic twins is one zygote where two small babies are growing together. That’s what makes monozygotic twins identical because the two babies are growing in the same zygote. It will be very rare when two or three monozygotic decides to separate and make “monozygotic quadruplets or octuplets” which means it makes more set of twins. The second main point is dizygotic twins, where the zygote will split into two and the babies will grow into two different zygotes.

Conjoined twins happen once in every 200,000 live births (Maryland). Conjoined twins are identical twins whose bodies are joined in utero. Most are stillborn and others are born with severe abnormalities that make living a normal life almost impossible. The survival rate of conjoined twins is between 5 percent and 25 percent (Maryland). The most common form of conjoined twins is thoracopagus twins. These types of twins share the same heart. Some of the other types of conjoined twins include omphalopagus in which the twins are conjoined at the lower chest but no heart is involved. Parasitic twins are when twins are asymmetrically conjoined. One twin is dependent on the larger twin for survival. Another type of twin is the craniopagus twins

Clinical: Patients are conjoined twins born on August 8, 2000. The twins were connected at the abdomen; Twin A was described as bright and alert with an anatomically normal brain, heart, lungs, and liver. Twin B was had significant brain pathology and relied on Twin A’s heart and lungs for blood supply. Separating the twins would mean a certain death for Twin B, but Twin A had a good chance of survival with moderate physical impairment that would require further operations to correct. The procedure was performed on November 8, 2000. Twin B died immediately when the blood vessels were cut. Twin A continues to survive the expectation that she would need years of surgical care; decades later, she is alive and doing well.

One set of twins sisters are being raised 275 miles apart by a kind of accidental science experiment. Two sets of couples traveled together to Chenzhou, a city in China's Hunan Province. When they saw the babies they were adopting, the couples had their first twin moment. When the kids come off the elevator the couples said that they were shocked that the fact that they were getting twins and didn’t know it. They said they laughed the same and cried the same… and they couldn’t tell one kid from the other. Before

Identical twins Gareth and Stefan delivered babies at the exact same time although each one lives 10.000 miles away from one another and with different due times yet still this mysterious miracle occurred.. on the 13th of October the two wives gave birth to young Imogen and Harvey just hours apart from each other.