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Posted on 07/08/2003 12:47:34 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Surgeons Separate Iranian Twins, Both in Critical Condition
SINGAPORE (AP) - Neurosurgeons on Tuesday finished separating two 29-year-old Iranian twins joined at the head, who were in critical condition after the procedure, a hospital spokesman said. "We should pray very hard for them," Dr. Prem Kumar said.
The surgery will last for at least another 24 hours as a team of plastic surgeons graft tissue taken from the twins' thighs to cover their brains to protect them, Kumar said.
The team of doctors had to contend with unstable pressure levels inside the twins' brains just before they worked to uncouple the sisters' brains and cut through the last bit of skull joining them, Kumar had said.
The risky, marathon procedure began Sunday morning.
"The thing we don't know, because the twins are under anesthesia, is the state the twins will be in when they come out of anesthesia," he said.
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