Twins Surgery

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel were born in 1990 and their parents - Patty and Mike Hensel - decided against the separation surgery, deeming it too risky.

Doctors at the AIIMS in Delhi have successfully separated conjoined twins - Riddhi and Siddhi - joined from the chest and upper part of their belly.

Bangladeshi surgeons will on Monday separate conjoined twin toddlers in a marathon procedure long-delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Growing up as identical twins, Mayla and Sofia always did everything together, and their decision to undergo gender confirmation surgery is no exception.

Kalia, one of the conjoined twins from Odisha separated in "India's first craniopagus surgery" three years ago, passed away at government-run Srirama Chandra Bhanja (SCB) Medical College and Hospital here on Wednesday evening, said a doctor.

The successful craniopagus surgery that separated conjoined twins Jaga and Kalia who were joined at the head in 2017 has featured in the 2020 edition of the Limca Book of Records as the first such operation in the country.

The conjoined twins from Odisha's Kandhamal district, Jaga and Balia, who spent over two years at AIIMS in New Delhi undergoing complicated surgeries for separation of their heads were discharged from the hospital on Friday.

Two-year-old twins joined at the head have undergone successful surgery at a British hospital to separate their skulls, brains and blood vessels, doctors said on Tuesday.

Australian surgeons began operating early Friday to separate 15-month-old Bhutanese twins joined at the torso.

A parasitic twin, attached to the torso of a seven-month-old baby has been surgically removed at after a 7-hour-long surgery at a hospital in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district, a hospital official said.

A pair of Bhutanese twins who were born 14 months ago conjoined at the chest will be evaluated on Thursday at a hospital in Australia before undergoing separation surgery.

Two sets of conjoined twins have been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), nearly nine months after doctors at the premier institute successfully separated a pair of twins from Odisha.

For Seetal Zalte and her husband Sagar Zalte, the 13 hours they spent outside an operation theatre in city-based BJ Wadia Hospital on Tuesday seemed endless.

The condition of the conjoined twins of Odisha, who underwent a marathon surgery at the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, is "critical but stable", state Health and Family Welfare minister Pratap Jena said today.

Conjoined twins, who were joined at the head, successfully separated at a breakthrough surgery in AIIMS.

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel were born in 1990 and their parents - Patty and Mike Hensel - decided against the separation surgery, deeming it too risky.

Doctors at the AIIMS in Delhi have successfully separated conjoined twins - Riddhi and Siddhi - joined from the chest and upper part of their belly.

Bangladeshi surgeons will on Monday separate conjoined twin toddlers in a marathon procedure long-delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Growing up as identical twins, Mayla and Sofia always did everything together, and their decision to undergo gender confirmation surgery is no exception.

Kalia, one of the conjoined twins from Odisha separated in "India's first craniopagus surgery" three years ago, passed away at government-run Srirama Chandra Bhanja (SCB) Medical College and Hospital here on Wednesday evening, said a doctor.

The successful craniopagus surgery that separated conjoined twins Jaga and Kalia who were joined at the head in 2017 has featured in the 2020 edition of the Limca Book of Records as the first such operation in the country.

The conjoined twins from Odisha's Kandhamal district, Jaga and Balia, who spent over two years at AIIMS in New Delhi undergoing complicated surgeries for separation of their heads were discharged from the hospital on Friday.

Two-year-old twins joined at the head have undergone successful surgery at a British hospital to separate their skulls, brains and blood vessels, doctors said on Tuesday.

Australian surgeons began operating early Friday to separate 15-month-old Bhutanese twins joined at the torso.

A parasitic twin, attached to the torso of a seven-month-old baby has been surgically removed at after a 7-hour-long surgery at a hospital in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills district, a hospital official said.

A pair of Bhutanese twins who were born 14 months ago conjoined at the chest will be evaluated on Thursday at a hospital in Australia before undergoing separation surgery.

Two sets of conjoined twins have been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), nearly nine months after doctors at the premier institute successfully separated a pair of twins from Odisha.

For Seetal Zalte and her husband Sagar Zalte, the 13 hours they spent outside an operation theatre in city-based BJ Wadia Hospital on Tuesday seemed endless.

The condition of the conjoined twins of Odisha, who underwent a marathon surgery at the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, is "critical but stable", state Health and Family Welfare minister Pratap Jena said today.

Conjoined twins, who were joined at the head, successfully separated at a breakthrough surgery in AIIMS.