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A humanitarian organisation, Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care (GIPLC) has arranged for the departure of conjoined twins, Hassana and Hussaina, to India for separation surgery.
Once conjoined at chest and abdomen, their lives were transformed by a Saudi medical team Thirty-three years after a groundbreaking and life-changing surgery, Sudanese twins Samah and Hiba ...
Twin brothers who were born conjoined recently celebrated their first birthday after undergoing successful separation surgery. Amari and Javar Ruffin, whose family lives in Philadelphia ...
According to CHOP, once the twins were separated, their abdomens were closed and rebuilt using layers of mesh and plastic surgery techniques. "Separating conjoined twins always presents challenges ...
Twin brothers who were born conjoined, sharing part of their sternum, diaphragm, abdominal wall and liver, recently celebrated their first birthday after undergoing successful separation surgery.
Those fused at the abdomen (omphalopagus) have the best chance of surviving separation surgery. There are more than 100 documented cases of both separated twins surviving. Separating conjoined ...
Twin girls born conjoined at the abdomen are enjoying their new lives after being successfully separated during a four-hour surgery at a German hospital. The Siamese twins, who have not been ...
The entire feat took over six months and included multiple surgeries. Doctors in Ohio performed a groundbreaking surgery to separate conjoined twins, the first of its kind due to the twins' age ...
The surgery for Eliza and Ella marked just the sixth time Texas Children’s Hospital has successfully separated a pair of conjoined twins since its first such operation in 1965. Four of those ...
When Eliza and Ella Fuller were born in March, they were conjoined at the stomach. Doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston spent months planning a rare surgery to separate the twins so ...
A month after surgery to separate them, Texas twins born conjoined are getting ready to head home for the first time. The four-month-old twin girls, Ella and Eliza Fuller, were born in March but ...
After months of preparation, which began "before these babies were even born," the separation surgery took place ... found out she was expecting conjoined twin girls during a "routine ultrasound ...