Fetus in Fetu: the Male Pregnancy.

By Alex in Health on Aug 30, 2006 at 11:41 am

Sanju Bhagat’s said he felt self-conscious about his pregnant belly. OK, kind of pregnant belly since he’s a man:

But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat’s stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened.

"To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside," he said. "It was a bit shocking for me." …

"He just put his hand inside and he said there are a lot of bones inside," she said. "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair." …

At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat’s twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world’s most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin’s blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.

LinkThanks Jim Perry!


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  1. tom
    Aug 30th, 2006 at 1:46 pm

    and then…I puked. Brrr!

  2. ted
    Aug 30th, 2006 at 5:56 pm

    Calling it a male pregnancy is quite a misnomer. This could possibly as easily happen to a woman. I wonder if they would have identified it as such, though?

  3. Greg
    Aug 31st, 2006 at 8:08 am

    Go Team Venture!!

  4. Bryan
    Aug 31st, 2006 at 10:24 am

    Greg beat me to it. Jonas Venture Jr has come back to kick Rusty’s pill-popping tucchus.

  5. Reed
    Sep 1st, 2006 at 3:48 pm

    There is some debate over whether the ABC story ripped off most of its text from Wikipedia:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Parasitic_twin

  6. Phil S.
    Jan 6th, 2010 at 1:38 am

    Didn’t anyone notice that the article never said what the fate of the twin was? Like, is he living as an accountant in Sacramento or something?


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