Cojoined twins fused head to head were succesfully separated by surgeons in the United Kingdom last month in a complicated operation, an organization that helped fund the operation said.
The twin girls Rital and Ritag from Sudan, who are 13 months of old, were separated over four stages at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, said Facing the World in a statement. The separation consisted of two operations in May; The insertion of tissue expanders in July and their final separation on August 15.
"Within days the twins were back on the general ward interacting and playing as before. Their laughter and delight in the world has been an inspiration throughout the months of worry," the organization said. Face the World is a British organization that offers treatment to children with facial disfigurement.
The girls were an extremely rare case of cojoined twins known as craniopagus (head-to-head) and only 1 out of 10 million survive to infancy. There are risks involved as often one twin is dependent on the other.
Published by Medicaldaily.com
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