Surgeons at Srinagarind Hospital, of Khon Kaen University, have performed Thailand’s first and successful surgery on a case of acardiac twins (twin reversed arterial perfusion or TRAP sequence) to save the two foetuses from developing heart failure.

 

The achievement was announced by Asst. Prof. Dr. Kiattisak Kongwattanakul, a lecturer attached to the Maternal Foetal Medicine unit of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Khon Kaen University.

 

TRAP used to be known as an “acardiac twin pregnancy” and is a very rare type of twinning that is only seen in pregnancies with only one placenta, occurring in about one every 35,000 identical twin conceptions.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailands-first-successful-acardiac-twin-surgery-performed-at-srinagarind-hospital/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-11-17

 

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Well done.

Yes, congratulations.

Looks like I picked the right place for my hernia op a few years back.