Twins born joined
PA " Auckland Siamese twins have been born at National Women’s Hospital for the first time. The face-to-face identical twin girls were joined at the lower chest and upper abdomen. A neo-natal pediatrician, Dr David Knight, said the twins’ hearts were joined. “We are investigating to see whether it is possible to separate them. Often when the hearts are joined, it is not,” he said. Siamese twins have lived as
long as 63 years without separation. Records show all cases where Siamese twins shared a heart had died in surgery but surgical separations had been successfully performed on conjoined twins with separate hearts. Dr Knight said the twins were doing well. They weighed 4.9 kg at birth. The family asked that its identity be kept private. It was only the fourth recorded time Siamese twins have been born in New Zealand.
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