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Franchise: April 23, 2008 - 12:55 AM PST I knew a guy who had this syndrome...

crimsonladybug: April 22, 2008 - 07:37 PM PST Polymicrogyria


Or something like that. I am guessing blindly at the spelling. I just thought since I figured it out, someone else might be interested too.

AtimeArhyme: March 30, 2008 - 08:56 AM PST calcium

crimsonladybug: March 29, 2008 - 06:43 PM PST

Thanks. She actually is getting better. She is gaining some sight - she now acknowledges movements where she didn't at first.

cegm: March 28, 2008 - 01:45 AM PST


this is what I found as well.

though it isn't always correct...I found a list of types of twins here on wiki':

wiki-Twin

I hope she recovers over time. but of course, smoothly & soon.

-c-

bananarchy: March 27, 2008 - 08:01 PM PST It sounds like what happened in utero could have been Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, but all of the articles that I saw listed general brain damage as a result and didn't have specific syndromes associated... sounds like we're not being very helpful...

MEOutLoud: March 27, 2008 - 07:40 PM PST

But that seems like what happened in utero not what she has now right?

MEOutLoud: March 27, 2008 - 07:37 PM PST

That's what I got too with google.

writtenonthecor: March 27, 2008 - 07:30 PM PST "vanishing twin" syndrome, courtesy of Yahoo Answers. As for the official name, I don't know.

crimsonladybug: March 27, 2008 - 06:58 PM PST My sorority sister, my Little Sister, has a little girl who has a syndrome. It's something that all kids have when their identical twin is miscarried but only about 15-20% ever show symptoms and only 5-10% of them have symptoms as severe as Sarah's. Her condition or syndrome (I'm not sure the exact classification) has a name as long as my arm and with probably every letter of the alphabet at least once but I can't remember it and I feel terrible asking my sister what it's called... again for the gazillionth time. So I thought maybe I could get help here since I'm not finding the name anywhere else online (I'm finding a description of it but no name).

Basically, identical twins share a placenta. When one of them is miscarried, the other tries to keep it alive. It's kind of like when a plant has a dead leaf and pours all its nutrients into that leaf to try to bring it back, ultimately killing itself in the process. In most cases, the surviving twin comes out of it with no adverse effects but in cases like Sarah's, sharing nutrients, oxygen and blood with her twin caused some fairly major brain damage.

Anyway the point of this is, does anyone know what this is called, medically, scientifically? Or do you have any suggestions of where to look to find it? Besides WebMD or iHealth because I've already tried those :/