Doctors in Texas has successfully separated 10-month old conjoined twins, the surgery lasted for 26-hour, and it was carried out at the Texas Children's Hospital.
The twins Knatalye Hope and Adeline Faith Mata were joined at the chest and abdomen.
"This surgery was not without its challenges with the girls sharing several organ systems,” Dr. Darrell Cass, pediatric surgeon and co-director of Texas Children's Fetal Center, told KHOU.
The procedure, had been in the works for months, included 3-D modeling of the twin girls’ organs and simulations of the surgery.
The surgery separated the girls from their chest wall, lungs,
pericardial sac (the lining of the heart), diaphragm, liver, intestines,
colon and pelvis, although the actual separation took 18 hours,
but other elements of the surgery took several hours more.
According to NBC Show, the entire procedure required a team of 50 medical professionals, that included specialists in pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, cardiovascular surgery, urology, liver transplant surgery, orthopedic surgery and pediatric gynecology, But it actually took 12 surgeons, 6 anesthesiologists, and 8 nurses to perform the main surgery.
The girls had earlier on undergone a 5-hour procedure in December where the doctors place tissue expander in their chest so that their skin can stretch enough by the time the proper surgery began.
They are alive and the prognosis is good.
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