Children's Hospital 2: Surgery to separate twins

Recently, Children's Hospital 2 had surgery to successfully separate conjoined twins. It was two 18-month-old girls that got together from the lower third of the chest to the navel.

On 5-11, Professor-doctor Tran Dong A, Deputy Director of Children's Hospital 2 Ho Chi Minh City announced: doctors of the hospital have just separated a pair of symmetrical twins, residing in Ho Chi Minh City.

Two 18-month-old granddaughters stick together from one third of the lower chest to the navel, sharing the diaphragm, sharing the heart, and sticking to a liver.

After opening the abdomen, the doctor separates and stitches the pericardium, corrects the pleura, diaphragm and the entire abdominal wall of the two children without using artificial materials instead.

According to Professor Tran Dong A, this is the case of separating twins to international scientific standards (the process of monitoring from the fetus, using ultrasonic scalpel and electric scalpel, appropriate time of operation .) head First in the world .

The surgical process is separated from 2 grandchildren taking place in 8 hours, the crew consists of 24 doctors (including a doctor of Ho Chi Minh City Heart Center). After 3 days of detachment, the health of the two children progressed well, awake and drink sugar water.