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Their circulation is connected, the dead twin is going to give the live twin septicaemia. If a person has a gangrenous limb, we can amputate it. But what to do
by skissane 3y ago
Their circulation is connected, the dead twin is going to give the live twin septicaemia. If a person has a gangrenous limb, we can amputate it. But what to do if the whole of your conjoined twin is gangrenous? Usually the cases of twins still conjoined in adulthood are cases where separation was not medically feasible, so “amputation” is not an option. Given this, they can live for a few hours, but once one twin is dead, death for the other becomes imminent and inevitable.