Beijing, 7 sep (EFE).-the Chinese doctors managed to separate after six hours of operation, two girls four months that they were born by the chest and abdomen, said today the official newspaper “China Daily”.
The Siamese, called An An and Xin Xin and born in April, are in stable condition in the children’s medical centre in Shanghai, although doctors indicated that they will need ventilation during some time.
“The girls had separate hearts so the connection was not complicated,” said Chen Qimin, one of the doctors who participated Monday in the operation, which involved four medical teams worked simultaneously for about six hours.
“In addition to separating the hearts and livers, we had to restructure the chest with titanium alloy plates,” said Chen.
The twins were born joined by the tissue that surrounds the heart and by the livers, so were transferred in April at the hospital where had been operated two hours of his birth.
“Then weighed in total 4.9 kg, and needed to gain weight before we could operate them.” “On Monday reached the 10 kilos,” added Chen.
The mother of the twins, a woman of 39 years in neighboring Zhejiang Province, discovered that she was pregnant with twins within 18 weeks of gestation, according to the newspaper Chinese, and decided to go ahead after knowing that the girls were joined by the aforementioned bodies and the sternum.
El doctor children’s Centre Shanghai has separated prior to other Siamese, although the case of these babies was the first in which the anomaly occurred during the pregnancy.
The incidence of conjoined births worldwide is a case for each between 50,000 and 100,000 births
China recorded a higher level of congenital deformities, that between 800,000 and 1.2 million newborns every year suffer from congenital diseases, such as heart problems, cleft lip, cleft palate or digestive problems. EFE
