Rare case of twin delivery at city hospital

Only one of the ‘monoamniotic’ twins survives

Ankura Hospital, a super specialty hospital chain dedicated to women and children, announced a successful operation of a rare case of a twin pregnancy of ‘monoamniotic twins’ — babies sharing the same placenta and amniotic sac in the uterus — at its Banjara Hills facility on Friday.

The 30-year-old mother was diagnosed with the rare form of pregnancy in her 18th week of pregnancy where the survival of the foetus occurs inonly50% of the cases. “In this case, one of the babies had incomplete formation of skull and brain called anencephaly, which made the case more challenging,” said medical director Durga Prasad at a press conference.

“The mother was healthy so we opted for expectant management of carefully monitoring the pregnancy using non-stress testing, measurement of amniotic fluid index, scans, and umbilical artery doppler studies. At 33 weeks gestation, an emergency C-section was done due to preterm onset of labour and the twins were delivered successfully. While one baby, a girl, survived and overcame the complications associated with prematurity, the other twin baby with anencephaly could not survive,” informed senior consultant gynecologist and obstetrician Sarada Vani.