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Conjoined Twins

Conjoined twins is a rarely seen congenital anomaly in which twin babies are born overlapped to one another. The most common type of conjoined twins include the; •Thoracopagus type, where the fusion of babies is anterior at the chest and involves the heart. Postmortem angiography demonstrated conjoined hearts with a left ventricle common to both twins. In autopsy, the cardiac anatomy for both hearts was found to be an unbalanced complete atrioventricular canal defect with a common left ventricle. The incidence of conjoined twins is estimated as 1 in 50,000 births.