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Great Ormond Street doctors seperate conjoined craniopagus twins Monday 19th of September 2011 Twins Rital and Ritag Gaboura, who were born joined at the head have been successfully separated by a team of British doctors after a 13 hour operation on 15th August 2011. Despite the chances of surviving this rare condition being put at one in 10 million, the girls are doing well and don't appear to have suffered any neurological complications. They are reacting in the same ways to tests and stimuli as they did prior to surgery although their young age makes it difficult to determine whether this is definitely the case. Born in Sudan by Caesarian section, they have undergone four operations in all to get to this stage of separation and Rital and Ritag will face more surgery in the future. For now though, the twins are getting used to seeing each other and unsurprisingly like to be close to each other most of the time. The girls' parents, who are both doctors, said: "We are very thankful to be able to look forward to going home with two separate, healthy girls. We are very grateful to all the doctors who volunteered their time and to Facing the World for organising all the logistics and for paying for the surgery." Conjoined twins are very rare - only one in every 2.5 million births - and only 5% of conjoined twins are craniopagus, which means they are fused at the head. Lori and Dori (Reba / George) Schappell are the best known craniophagus twins in the world and are believed to be the oldest surviving too at 50 years of age. more |
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