A set of twin girls who were born as conjoined have now been brought home after undergoing a six-hour surgery to separate them. Ella Grace and Eliza Faith Fuller were conjoined at the abdomen when they were born on March 1st at Texas Children’s Pavilion for women. They each weighed 5 pounds, 10 ounces at […]
2 years ago
Incredible news. Doctors have successfully separated conjoined twins Bernardo and Arthur Lima. The 3-year-old twins’ brains were fused together. However, doctors in Rio de Janeiro successfully separated the twins after multiple complex operations. The boys underwent seven operations. They also received two and half years of specialist medical treatment. The brothers will now undergo six […]
3 years ago
New technologies give conjoined twins a better chance of living a full life. A pair of conjoined twin girls have been successfully separated after a 12-hour surgery. Dr Noor ul Owase Jeelani, a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital and co-founder of medical charity Gemini Untwined, led the surgery and team at Soroka […]
4 years ago
“I wouldn’t call it a miracle, I would call it a medical triumph.” A survivor of a conjoined twin separation has given birth to her own child at the same hospital where she was born and later separated from her sister. Charity Lincoln Gutierrez-Vazquez and her twin sister Kathleen were separated by a team of nearly […]
4 years ago
“We are extremely excited about the future.” A pair of conjoined twins have been separated successfully following a 50 hour surgery in London. Two-year-olds Safa and Marwa Ullah were born with their skulls fused together in January 2017. Their mother, Zainab Bibi, did not know she was expecting more than one baby. The sisters, born […]
6 years ago
The babies were initially ‘anxious’ after being separated.
7 years ago