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(CNN) On May 27, Margaret Awino gave birth to Paul Mukisa with the help of her mother-in-law inside her home in Nabigingo, a small village in eastern Uganda. But instead of joy and jubilation for the birth of <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Gucci-Outlet-Online-Underwear-Moccasins-Tennis-Shoes.html>Gucci Outlet Online</a>  her fifth child, the 28-year-old mother was shocked: her newborn son had been born with four legs and four arms.
 
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The family rushed to a nearby district hospital for help but they were quickly referred to Mulago Hospital in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. There, a team of doctors examined the infant and made the diagnosis of parasitic twinning, a variant of conjoint twinning in which one of the twins is not fully developed baby Paul had been born with a full set of arms and legs and another set from a headless and heartless mirror image twin that never fully grew.
 
  
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The Ugandan doctors ran a series of tests on the eight-limbed newborn which showed that the host and parasitic twin shared part of the pelvic bone. Examinations of Paul s internal organs revealed further abnormalities: his heart was on the right side of his body, instead of the left, while his liver was on the left side as opposed to the right.
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The problem with the 2014 US Open final in the broader sense? Marin Cilic and Kei Nishikori aren t household names not players who are known for people who are only slightly interested in Tennis, usually awaken when a Grand Slam Final pops up. The Croatian beat the Japanese player in a final that showed this is no longer a top 4 tour, yet it s going to take some time getting used to it.
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After these initial investigations, Paul was discharged home for three months as the surgeons wanted to allow him to grow before performing an operation to separate the twins.
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Cilic claimed the win in straight sets (6-3, 6-3, 6-3) as he beat Nishikori as the two of them made their debuts in a Grand Slam final. Cilic himself has only been past the quarterfinals in a major once in his career. Nishikori s biggest achievement to date was reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.
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Finally, on August 18, a Ugandan team of three surgeons, three anesthesiologists and two nurses successfully completed a three-hour operation to remove parts of the parasitic twin from the normal body.
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The other problem for this game, as some hope it won <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Tory-Burch-Tunic-Tops>Tory Burch Tunic Tops</a>  t be a repeat of the 1996 Wimbledon final, featuring one-hit wonders like Richard Krajicek and MaliVai Washington, both quite unremarkable players as history judges them only to have one shiny moment that will go down in the history pages as the final that interrupted Pete Sampras from winning Wimbledon eight times in a row.
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The baby was given general anesthesia and the torso and trunk of the parasitic twin which had two arms but no head or heart was detached from the host baby, said Dr Nasser Kakembo, one of the surgeons who carried out the operation.
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<a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Cheap-Gucci-Outlet-Watch-Men-Womens-Sunglasses-Crossbody-Bag.html>Cheap Gucci Outlet</a>  Then we also detached the lower limbs of the parasitic twin from the host, which included disarticulating the right and left lower limbs as they were attached by joints. We controlled the bleeding and fashioned skin flaps to close the resulting wound, he added. There were no intra-operative or post-operative complications and mild blood loss and a precautionary blood transfusion was given.  
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Cilic dominated throughout the US Open, although things were difficult in the early rounds. He dropped a set in the third round when beating Kevin Anderson from South <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=Cheap-True-Religion-Hats>True Religion Jeans On Sale</a>  Africa, and needed five sets and his incredible serves to overcome Gilles Simon in the fourth round, in what might have been the best match of the tournament. Things were much easier for him in the final 8, beating Tomas Berdych and Roger Federer in straight sets to reach his first Grand Slam Final.
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Paul Mukisa
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Roger Federer is still the most popular Tennis player in the world, despite not winning a Grand Slam title since 2012. The crowd in the semifinal against Cilic certainly showed that. With people growing so accustomed to the titles splitting between Djokovic, Nadal, Murray and Federer over the last few years and usually seeing these four in the semifinals, it s almost hard to compute two complete different names making it this far and playing for the trophy.
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Three weeks after the surgery, the baby is progressing and breastfeeding well, according to the doctors.
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Maybe this year is a change. Nadal can t last more than two-three months without getting injured, Andy Murray might have peaked in 2012-2013, and Novak Djokovic isn <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=Men-Gucci-Belt>Gucci Discount Uk</a>  t the rock solid player, physically and mentally, he was not too long ago. Roger Federer can still produce some brilliant tennis, but a best-of-five match takes too much out of him, as the five-setter against Monfils clearly showed.
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The father and mother were very grateful because at first they thought it was due to witchcraft, and their baby was a laughing stock because of the abnormalities, says Kakembo.
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This was only the second time since 2003 that no player won more than one grand slam. It s also the first time since 2003 that two players not named Federer-Nadal-Djokovic won a Grand Slam title each. The Masters and end-of-year tournament will give us a better indication if this trend will carry on into 2015, or are we going to see the same old faces after one year of shaking things up.
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The incidence of conjoined twins is one in 50,000, while parasitic twins are extremely rare. The condition is typically created after one of the twins stops developing at a certain point <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Gucci-Handbags-Outlet-Saks-Website-Saks.html>Gucci Saks</a>  during the pregnancy, and the remnants of that twin merge with the twin that has continued developing.
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Back in 2007, an eight-limbed girl in India made global headlines after a team of 30 surgeons successfully completed a mammoth 27-hour operation to remove her parasitic twin.  
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For the doctors at Mulago Hospital, this was the first time they had ever performed a surgery like this.
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We have not had a prior experience with a parasitic twin but we work on many other children with multiple complex multi-organ congenital anomalies such as intestinal, urologic, cardiac, and orthopedic defects, said Kakembo. Although twinning is very rare worldwide, he continued, we have an increased incidence in Africa we <have> seen numerous sets of conjoint twins, five to six sets in the last few years.  
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Baby Paul Mukisa is still at the hospital and will remain there for the next two weeks, being treated by medics.
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Looking ahead, doctors say that they anticipate a healthy baby that may have a wide gait due to the large pelvic bone, and this may require orthopedic reconstruction in the future.
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Revision as of 02:51, 29 September 2014

The problem with the 2014 US Open final in the broader sense? Marin Cilic and Kei Nishikori aren t household names not players who are known for people who are only slightly interested in Tennis, usually awaken when a Grand Slam Final pops up. The Croatian beat the Japanese player in a final that showed this is no longer a top 4 tour, yet it s going to take some time getting used to it. Cilic claimed the win in straight sets (6-3, 6-3, 6-3) as he beat Nishikori as the two of them made their debuts in a Grand Slam final. Cilic himself has only been past the quarterfinals in a major once in his career. Nishikori s biggest achievement to date was reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. The other problem for this game, as some hope it won <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Tory-Burch-Tunic-Tops>Tory Burch Tunic Tops</a> t be a repeat of the 1996 Wimbledon final, featuring one-hit wonders like Richard Krajicek and MaliVai Washington, both quite unremarkable players as history judges them only to have one shiny moment that will go down in the history pages as the final that interrupted Pete Sampras from winning Wimbledon eight times in a row.

Cilic dominated throughout the US Open, although things were difficult in the early rounds. He dropped a set in the third round when beating Kevin Anderson from South <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=Cheap-True-Religion-Hats>True Religion Jeans On Sale</a> Africa, and needed five sets and his incredible serves to overcome Gilles Simon in the fourth round, in what might have been the best match of the tournament. Things were much easier for him in the final 8, beating Tomas Berdych and Roger Federer in straight sets to reach his first Grand Slam Final. Roger Federer is still the most popular Tennis player in the world, despite not winning a Grand Slam title since 2012. The crowd in the semifinal against Cilic certainly showed that. With people growing so accustomed to the titles splitting between Djokovic, Nadal, Murray and Federer over the last few years and usually seeing these four in the semifinals, it s almost hard to compute two complete different names making it this far and playing for the trophy. Maybe this year is a change. Nadal can t last more than two-three months without getting injured, Andy Murray might have peaked in 2012-2013, and Novak Djokovic isn <a href=http://www.alportico.net/page.php?sale=Men-Gucci-Belt>Gucci Discount Uk</a> t the rock solid player, physically and mentally, he was not too long ago. Roger Federer can still produce some brilliant tennis, but a best-of-five match takes too much out of him, as the five-setter against Monfils clearly showed. This was only the second time since 2003 that no player won more than one grand slam. It s also the first time since 2003 that two players not named Federer-Nadal-Djokovic won a Grand Slam title each. The Masters and end-of-year tournament will give us a better indication if this trend will carry on into 2015, or are we going to see the same old faces after one year of shaking things up. Images:

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