Gilang Andika is a 2 - month - older baby boy from Batam , Indonesia , birth with two faces and two encephalon but only one body and one skull , Newsflarereports . This is an inordinately rare and utmost case of join twin , which appears when there is a complication in the egg ’s segmentation during early pregnancy and the embryos do not divide as normal .
According to the report , Andika ’s female parent , Ernilasari Andika , was unaware there was anything unusual about her gestation before the birth . And despite three ultrasounds , the doctor at Chamata Sahidiya Panbil Hospital did not detect any abnormalcy .
If this was not heartbreaking enough , as a result of his stipulation , Andika is also suffering from a sometimes fatal build - up of fluid in the brain called hydrocephaly , which can stimulate excess force per unit area on the brain . This , in turn , can stimulate larn disabilities and epilepsy , as well as problems with vision , memory , speech communication , physical coordination , and attending .
His parents now go for he can undergo operating theatre to fix the shape , but money is not the only problem they are currently facing .
To bring around Andika , medics may have to do an extremely high - risk operation to withdraw one wit and fount , as well as part of his skull . harmonise to the latest report , doctor have said they are unable to go through with the surgery and that Andika is unlikely to live long because of his condition .
Conjoined twins are passing rarified , and twins unite at the head ( aka craniopagus ) are even rarer , with it occurring in only one in 2.5 million births . This fussy type of craniopagus is called craniofacial duplication or diprosopus ( which means two faces in Greek ) and draw a condition where all or some part of the face is double on the head .
Another recent high - profile casing of diprosopus was that of Hope and Faith Howie in Sydney , Australia , in 2014 . The twins survived for 19 days , but even within that short timeframe , their parents noticed that the girls displayed trenchant personalities – Hope enjoyed a nap and Faith tended to cry a little more , The Sunday Morning Heraldreported at the time .
accord toGizmodo , only 35 cases ofdiprosopus have been report in the entireness of human chronicle before 2014 .
reference : Newsflare / SiLelo
