Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Medical → Rebeca Martinez... and her parasitic head (Set 2)
Baby Rebeca Martinez with a parasitic head sleeps at the CARE clinic in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Rebeca Martinez (December 10, 2003 - February 7, 2004) was an infant from the Dominican Republic who was born with two heads, a case reported by news agencies across the world.
Martinez had a parasitic twin, an extremely rare case where one of two conjoined twins stop growing as a fetus. She had a condition known as craniopagus parasiticus. There have only been nine known cases of this condition before (seven died before birth, one shortly after, and only one was able to survive for several years). Twins born conjoined at the head are extremely rare, accounting for one of every 2.5 million births. Parasitic twins like Rebeca are even rarer.
The second head was only partially developed, with a partially developed brain, ears, eyes and lips. Its mouth would move when Rebeca was breast feeding. Tests indicated some activity in the second brain.
The surgery was necessary because the second head was growing faster than the first one.
Rebeca Martinez went into surgery at Santo Domingo, on February 6, to try to remove the other head. This was the first operation of its type in history. Doctor Jorge Lazareff, who had successfully separated Guatemalan conjoined twins in 2002, led the historic operation, which lasted 11 hours. On the morning of February 7, she died from complications related to the surgery.
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Your Comments
| EmmetEarwax |
| Trouble is: the survival rate is 0%. Yes, 0%. We have not had a single real survivor. Something really went wrong in gestation. Whether the bodiless parasite head can develop awareness & intelligence is unknown... |
| 2012-01-07 14:25:04 |
| Ms Strict |
| OMG! Babies dying at this age. I don't want to know why. I lost My grand daughter due to SIDS at 2 1/2 months old. |
| 2011-11-07 08:54:26 |
| jerks! |
| that is a baby that had a disablilty some people really need to revaluate them selves.a BABY died! its not a funny thing. |
| 2011-07-17 19:28:57 |
| wow |
| All I can say is WHAT. THE. FUCK.?!?! The other head's mouth moved??? Omg. Easily the most fucked up thing I've ever seen... Can you imagine what it was like in that delivery room though? "Come on, keep pushing, I can see the head... What the.... OH FUCK!!! There's another head!" |
| 2011-07-02 08:59:48 |
| ballsack |
| the second head died in surgery too? |
| 2011-06-15 06:05:48 |
| sad |
| poor baby, at least it's not suffering any more |
| 2011-02-08 15:51:31 |
| DOF |
| Some people say the stupidest things. What does anyone's cock have to do with anything in these photos. You must be a butt ugly person that can't get any from a girl so you have to along making stupid comments. What if it was your child, you wouldn't like that. People need to grow up. QUIT BEING CHILDISH!!!! |
| 2011-02-01 17:29:01 |
| tiger |
| why the fuck they not take her to States for operation? the Dominican Republic hospital? |
| 2010-12-08 13:11:53 |
| omg |
| holy fuckin shit they even named this creature |
| 2010-10-26 15:01:29 |
| eileen |
| these things are not meant to live and it would be okay to stick your cock in it |
| 2010-10-25 07:01:52 |
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