Doctors have successfully separated conjoined twins at the City Children’s Hospital in HCM City.( Photo courtesy of the City Children’s Hospital)HCM City (VNS/VNA) –
Around 100 doctors and nurses at the City Children’s
Hospital, Children’s Hospital 1 and 2, and others in
HCM City on July 15 took part in a successful operation to
separate conjoined twins.
The twins are 13 months
old and weigh 15 kilogrammes, and are in good health. Because their
development indexes are the same as healthy children, doctors said the surgery
was now safe to perform.
Doctors said they would perform
additional operations on the children, including plastic surgery.
Professor Tran Dong A, 79, is
one of nine key doctors performing the operation. He said the chances of
the children making a full recovery was very positive thanks to advanced
surgical techniques and equipment.
Doctors have prepared scenarios
and predicted risks since June 2019 when the twins were born, he said.
Professor A successfully
performed an operation to separate Vietnamese twin boys in 1988.
When the twins were
delivered in June last year, the city’s Children’s Hospital
said they were joined at the pelvis and all four lower
extremities were present and oriented at right angles to the axis of the common
trunk. The twins, who weighed 3.2kg at the time, were then
brought to the city’s Children’s Hospital.
Last year, when the woman’s
pregnancy reached 16 weeks, doctors detected that the twins shared one
umbilical cord. At 33 weeks, doctors decided to operate and deliver the
twins.
The rate of
worldwide is 1 per 200,000 live births. Among the rate, only 6 percent are
classified as ischiopagus tetrapus conjoined
twins, which means they were joined at the pelvis.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc
and Acting Minister of Heath Nguyen Thanh Long on July 15 evening sent a
special congratulation message to the team of doctors who carried out the surgery
and at the same time passed on their best wishes to the two baby sisters./.
Source: VietnamPlus
