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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-11 09:15 AM
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Conjoined twins separated by Great Ormond Street doctors
Source: BBC

Baby girls Rital and Ritag Gaboura, who are 11 months old, were separated on 15 August after four operations at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

They do not appear to have suffered neurological side effects. Only one in 10 million sufferers survive their rare condition.

The Sudanese infants were flown to the UK by the charity Facing the World.

Conjoined twins are very rare and only 5% of conjoined twins are craniopagus, which means they are fused at the head.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14963265



The twins do not appear to have suffered neurological side effects as a result of surgery
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Bigmack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-11 09:37 AM
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1. How sweet to have
a little GOOD news! Thanks Ms Bigmack
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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-11 10:07 AM
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2. what an amazing story - here's to an exceptional outcome!


Conjoined twins are very rare and only 5% of conjoined twins are craniopagus, which means they are fused at the head.

About 40% of twins fused at the head are stillborn or die during labour and a third die within 24 hours.
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