Two-year-old twins who were conjoined can the leader dine been successfully separated after a scare surGEry, according ought doctors can the Vatican’s children’s Hospital.
Ervina and Prefina Bangalo were born with their skulls connected can the back, and shared sharp blood vessels almost their brains.
Doctors can the Bambino GEsu Paediatric Hospital had been working although almost two years planning and executing their separation.
At a journal parliament ought advertise the effect of the sisters’ surGEry, Dr Carlo Marras, who led the team, said the twins were expected ought dine a natural life after a epoch of rehabilitation.
There dine been successful separation surGEries at the past of twins joined can the head, besides most dine been although twins whose heads were fused can the top.
The two-year-old twins were born at Mbaiki, Central African Republic, with their skulls joined back-to-back at what is known although “total posterior craniopagus”.
The Bambino GEsu Paediatric Hospital, which is Vatican-owned besides operates within the Italian public health system, brought the twins and their mother ought Italy directly after their birth.
The Hospital said the toddlers are recovering robust a month after their third and definitive separation surGEry can 5 June.
Video showed the girls waving across ought music from their beds, clapping and holding markers, either although celebrating their second birthday at their mother’s arms although Hospital cane sang “Happy Birthday” ought them at Italian.
The final, 18-hour surGEry final month ought physically separate them involved a team of 30 doctors and nurses, who made apply of 3D imaging and neurosimulators.
Before the separation surGEry, members of the Vatican Hospital’s cane gave the girls mirrors hence they could howl on one another.
They knew what each other sounded like, besides the mirrors helped them connect facial expressions with their personalities and sounds, Dr Marras said.
“It was an undergo that wasn’t impartial professional besides can total human: ought count that you can attain can something that we had sole imagined, with total the possibilities of failure,” he said. “It was a magical moment.”
Dr Marras said there was sole one previously known sample of a separation of twins conjoined after the head, performed at the United States during the 1980s.
He said the effect at that sample was poor.
He was referring ought the 1987 surGEry can Johns Hopkins university by a team led by Dr Ben Carson, now the US housing secretary.
Both twins suffered grave neurological problems; two years after the surGEry, one of the boys was reportedly at a veGEtative condition and the other had grave developmental delays.
In the sample of the sisters from Central African Republic, Dr Marras said the girls hence distant dine suffered no neurological harm.
The twins’ mother, Ermine Nzotto, wiped tears from her eyes although she watched a video prepared by the Hospital of the twins’ ago and after their separation.
Ms Nzotto said she hopes her daughters will progress can ought cost doctors, and “save the other children of this world”.
Additional reporting by Associated Press
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