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Binoculars Nima and Dawa were successfully separated after an operation at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.
The head of pediatric surgery, Dr. Joe Crameri, said it took two hours before the two girls from Bhutan could get surgery.
About 18 medical staff, including doctors, nurses and anesthesiologists, treated the two 15-month-old girls during the six-hour surgery, during which their shared organs were to be unraveled.
He said that the operation had succeeded, despite the fact that she had to manage the expectations of the family and the public.
"The only thing I understood about this operation would be about six hours and it's about as long as it took," said Dr. Crameri earlier.
"Here, I have a good thing."
Dr. Crameri confirmed earlier reports that girls shared a liver that had to be separated.
"The breach in the liver may have been a little bigger than we thought," he said.
"We were able to separate that without any bleeding, from there it was fine."
RESCUE SURGERY FOR Bhutanese Twins
The twin babies entered the operating room this morning.
The doctors determined that they were connected to the torso and also shared a bowel that needed to be "split."
The mother of the twins, Bhumchu Zhangmo, traveled with them on a grueling 26-hour journey from Bhutan to Australia, which included a difficult stopover in Bangkok.
"We continue to guess how long it will take, but the reality is that the operation begins and we end up seeing what connects the girls, we will not really know how long," said Dr. Crameri before # 39; transaction. Morning.
"We know that the intestine is mixed and that it can be fully separated and sitting next to each other or that the girls share the intestines and we have to find a way to divide it.
"The advantage we all have is that we are all born with a lot of bowel and you can afford to decrease it."
The difficulty of surgery in Siamese twins is anesthesia and the different effects that drugs can have on twins because they share a body. The twins have a shared circulation and before the surgery, their condition was described as "fragile".
"One of the complexities is that you really do not know what you are doing to a twin, nor how it affects the other," added Dr. Crameri.
The twins and their mother are from the Himalayan nation of Bhutan, a country famous for its mountain ranges, its calm and its government, which has put in place a plan to rule on "gross national happiness".
Upon arriving in Australia, Dr. Crameri said he was delighted with the presentation of Nima and Dawa last month.
"I was reassured by the fact that the twins were active and interacting with each other, and I was delighted to see that mom was feeding the girls pretty well," he said.
Their mother, Ms. Zhangmo, was excited and impatient that the operation would end.
"These little girls are very special because if we did not do this we wondered if they would live or not," said Elizabeth Lodge, CEO of the Children First Foundation.
She encouraged the public to make donations for the monitoring and rehabilitation of Nima and Dawa, which will take place in the facilities of the Children First Foundation, open 24 hours a day, on a farm in Kilmore, in the state. from Victoria.
"We have a team of physiotherapists volunteering with us, which is amazing … so we're going to get them to crawl, roll and hit all those marks that most 14-month-old girls probably hit now," he said. she declared The Sydney Morning Herald.
"We will have some of the same surgeons, anesthesiologists, theater staff, we will have an intensive care team again, so we are very confident that these little girls will be successfully separated and will soon be able to crawl, roll, jump and run like two little independents. "
The $ 350,000 surgery should be supported by the Government of the State of Victoria.
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Surgeons say that they are confident that everything is in place before the delicate surgery to separate the Siamese Bhutanese twins Nima and Dawa at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.
Up to 30 specialists will participate in the procedure, 18 of them will work in the operating room, while the others will focus on recovery.
The sisters are joined to the torso and share a liver. It is also possible that they share a gut.
Image: Alex Coppel / News Corp Australia
Surgeons are confident in preparation for separation surgery
Originally published as successfully separated Siamese twins
