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One life for two
Conjoined twins are tops Trishna and Krishna were born in Bangladesh nearly three years ago. And Australian doctors managed to separate Siamese twins. Operation to separate brain tissue girls, which lasted 25 hours, was performed by an experienced surgeon, and 16 completed successfully. Neurosurgery managed to divide the girls' brain tissue is only a day after the operation. Before the surgery, doctors evaluate the chances that both sisters will take action without serious consequences for the brain, 25%, but now the girls feel good. What would their life be different if the division did not take place?
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1) Australian doctors managed to separate conjoined twins. The operation, which lasted 25 hours, ended successfully.
2) Doctors carried out an operation to separate Siamese twins. Conjoined twins are tops Trishna and Krishna were born in Bangladesh nearly three years ago.
3) Trishna. The girl is now 3 years.
4) The operation to separate brain tissue girls performed 16 experienced surgeons. Neurosurgery managed to divide the girls' brain tissue is only a day after the operation. According to Donnan, a leading surgeon Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, at the time when it happened, everyone present felt "pretty surreal."
5) The guardian Moria Kelly cots near Trishna and Krishna after a successful operation.
6) Before the surgery, doctors evaluate the chances that both sisters will take action without serious consequences for the brain, 25%. Now the girls are doing well.
7) Volunteer Marie with Mardi Trishna after surgery. Girl is very sociable and cheerful.
8) Krishna with his guardian. The head of the neurosurgery department Melbourne Hospital Royal Children's Hospital Virginia Meyksner said it expects a full recovery Trishna and Krishna. Without the unique operation of separation of girls waiting to die.
9) Krishna, one of the girls who had surgery. About half of twins are born dead Siamese. The resulting survival rate of infants of 5-25%.
10) The first case is when the two boys, Chang and Eng Booker, born in the city of Maklonge (in present-day Thailand) in 1811 (when the country was known as Siam), survived and so spent a lifetime without being able for a second part of each with friend. Even when Chiang died of pneumonia, Ang has not agreed to an operation that freed him. He died two hours later, at the age of 63 years.
11) Many of the Siamese twins can not survive without the operation of the division. While some live long enough life. These sisters 29 years. The oldest Siamese twins celebrate this year's 58th anniversary.
12) The child immediately after the operation, during which a team of surgeons successfully divided Siamese twins orphans. The probability of the birth of conjoined twins is about one case per 200,000 births.
13) In Thailand, operated on conjoined twins. It was the world's first successful operation to separate Siamese twins whose hearts and bodies are separate, yet children were connected.
14) and Vani Sisters Veen. Doctors plan to operate them. Chances are that both girls would survive, doctors estimate of 60 to 70%.
15) A mother feeds her baby, whose one heart and one liver for two. During pregnancy, doctors have repeatedly assured the woman that her children will be born healthy.
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15 photos via Bigpicture
1) Australian doctors managed to separate conjoined twins. The operation, which lasted 25 hours, ended successfully.
2) Doctors carried out an operation to separate Siamese twins. Conjoined twins are tops Trishna and Krishna were born in Bangladesh nearly three years ago.
3) Trishna. The girl is now 3 years.
4) The operation to separate brain tissue girls performed 16 experienced surgeons. Neurosurgery managed to divide the girls' brain tissue is only a day after the operation. According to Donnan, a leading surgeon Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, at the time when it happened, everyone present felt "pretty surreal."
5) The guardian Moria Kelly cots near Trishna and Krishna after a successful operation.
6) Before the surgery, doctors evaluate the chances that both sisters will take action without serious consequences for the brain, 25%. Now the girls are doing well.
7) Volunteer Marie with Mardi Trishna after surgery. Girl is very sociable and cheerful.
8) Krishna with his guardian. The head of the neurosurgery department Melbourne Hospital Royal Children's Hospital Virginia Meyksner said it expects a full recovery Trishna and Krishna. Without the unique operation of separation of girls waiting to die.
9) Krishna, one of the girls who had surgery. About half of twins are born dead Siamese. The resulting survival rate of infants of 5-25%.
10) The first case is when the two boys, Chang and Eng Booker, born in the city of Maklonge (in present-day Thailand) in 1811 (when the country was known as Siam), survived and so spent a lifetime without being able for a second part of each with friend. Even when Chiang died of pneumonia, Ang has not agreed to an operation that freed him. He died two hours later, at the age of 63 years.
11) Many of the Siamese twins can not survive without the operation of the division. While some live long enough life. These sisters 29 years. The oldest Siamese twins celebrate this year's 58th anniversary.
12) The child immediately after the operation, during which a team of surgeons successfully divided Siamese twins orphans. The probability of the birth of conjoined twins is about one case per 200,000 births.
13) In Thailand, operated on conjoined twins. It was the world's first successful operation to separate Siamese twins whose hearts and bodies are separate, yet children were connected.
14) and Vani Sisters Veen. Doctors plan to operate them. Chances are that both girls would survive, doctors estimate of 60 to 70%.
15) A mother feeds her baby, whose one heart and one liver for two. During pregnancy, doctors have repeatedly assured the woman that her children will be born healthy.
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