Twins ‘stable’
NZPA-AP Salt Lake City The Siamese twins, Lisa and Elisa Hansen, who were joined at their heads before doctors separated them in a 16-hour operation on Wednesday were yesterday described as “active and aware,” but still in a critical condition. “That is quite good at this point,” the University of Utah’s medical centre said.
Although in a critical but stable condition, the girls, aged 19 months, were sometimes crying, sometimes looking around, and sleeping a lot. Doctors, nurses and the girls’ parents are allowed to see the twins, who, for the first time in their lives, lie side-by-side in separate cribs in the centre’s intensive care unit.
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