Folk Figure. She was a young Egyptian girl, who suffered from a rare medical condition called craniopagus parasiticus, a type of conjoined twins who are attached at the head and one fails to develop completely in the mother's womb, becoming completely dependent on the other. After Manar's health started to fail in February 2005, she underwent a 13 hour operation in Benha, Egypt, to remove her twin. The operation was a success but her twin Islaam died. On May 28, of that year she returned home with her family. On March 26, 2006, though she died from a severe brain infection. Manar's story was national news. She appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in October 2005 with her mother and doctor, was featured on a special program on the Discovery Channel called "Born With Two Heads," on October 2, 2005, and on the British television Channel 4 series, "Bodyshock," on February 20, 2006. There had also been one recent case, in December 2003, of another girl, Rebeca Martínez, born with craniopagus parasiticus, who survived an operation to separate her from her twin. She died shortly afterwards from blood loss. The doctor's in Egypt who studied the evidence of Rebeca's operation used it to assist with their own surgery.
Folk Figure. She was a young Egyptian girl, who suffered from a rare medical condition called craniopagus parasiticus, a type of conjoined twins who are attached at the head and one fails to develop completely in the mother's womb, becoming completely dependent on the other. After Manar's health started to fail in February 2005, she underwent a 13 hour operation in Benha, Egypt, to remove her twin. The operation was a success but her twin Islaam died. On May 28, of that year she returned home with her family. On March 26, 2006, though she died from a severe brain infection. Manar's story was national news. She appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in October 2005 with her mother and doctor, was featured on a special program on the Discovery Channel called "Born With Two Heads," on October 2, 2005, and on the British television Channel 4 series, "Bodyshock," on February 20, 2006. There had also been one recent case, in December 2003, of another girl, Rebeca Martínez, born with craniopagus parasiticus, who survived an operation to separate her from her twin. She died shortly afterwards from blood loss. The doctor's in Egypt who studied the evidence of Rebeca's operation used it to assist with their own surgery.
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