Is this surgery really successful?
The children were separated earlier this week at a Texas hospital where they were born in October. The successful separation of conjoined twins occurred on January 23 at Cook Children’s Hospital Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The treatment lasted eleven hours and involved twenty-five medical professionals. James Finley and Amanda Arciniega of Saginaw, Texas, are the parents of October-born twin girls called AmieLynn and JamieLynn, according to NBC Fort Worth station KXAS.
The couple discussed their astonishment at learning they were expecting conjoined twins during a January 26 TODAY show. As she tears, Arciniega recalls, “The trip home was silence, which was sad.” One conjoined twin is born for every 200,000 live births. AmieLynn and JamieLynn may be difficult to separate since they share a liver and are joined from the lower area of the sternum to the navel. According to Cook Children’s Hospital plastic surgeon Dr. Ben Gbulie, the initial treatment step for conjoined twins is not outlined in any medical reference.
The girls will be assisted by six surgeons from a group of 25 medical specialists. The endeavor is led by Dr. José Iglesias, who claims it demonstrates how human spirit and collaboration may be realized. “This is a monument to the human spirit that continues to explore in order to be able to perform exceptional and complicated things with technology,” he added. Considering the future, Iglesias maintains an optimistic outlook.
He told Cook Children’s Hospital, “I am really optimistic that they will recover well and enjoy healthy lives in the future.” “They’re going to have a bit of a ramp up from the recuperation, but I believe they’ll eventually be able to come back to normal, if not entirely normal.”
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