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World-first
successful surgery to separate conjoined twins who were connected at the chest
and abdomen was recorded at Texas US.
Knatalye
Hope and Adeline Faith Mata were born in Texas last
April and were welcomed by parents Elysse and John
Eric.
The couple, from
Lubbock, were told that their twin girls would be conjoined and when they were
born it was found their shared the same chest wall, lungs, pericardial sac (the
lining of the heart), diaphragm, liver, intestines, colon and
pelvis.
Earlier this month, a
team of more than 26 clinicians, including 12 surgeons, six anesthesiologists
and eight surgical nurses at the Texas Children's Hospital operated to separate
the 10-month-olds.
The 26-hour surgery
was the first time twins conjoined at the chest and abdomen in this way had been
separated successfully.
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