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Formerly conjoined twins in stable condition
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November 18, 2009, Wednesday
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FORMERLY conjoined Bangladeshi twins spent their first night in separate beds and were in serious but stable condition today following a marathon surgery to separate the toddlers, who were born joined at their heads.
Trishna and Krishna, who turn 3 next month, shared a section of skull, blood vessels and brain tissue. They were separated Tuesday after 25 hours of delicate surgery and reconstruction by a team of 16 surgeons and nurses.
"It was amazing to see," said Leo Donnan, chief of surgery at Royal Children's Hospital. "The girls look very different."
He said the girls are in serious but stable condition in the intensive care unit.
It is too early to know whether the girls suffered any brain damage during the marathon operation - an outcome doctors said was a 50-50 chance. The girls will remain in an induced coma for monitoring for several days.
Andrew Greensmith, a plastic surgeon from New Zealand, called the surgery painstaking and remarkable.
Greensmith was holding the girls' heads at the final moment of separation, when the beds were pushed apart millimeter by millimeter.
"It was quite bizarre to see them apart for a change ... quite surreal," he told New Zealand radio network NewstalkZB.
He said the surgery went smoothly.
"We were prepared for potentially catastrophic things happening at some point, major bleeding which we may have trouble stopping, all sorts of possibilities. But we had none of that at all," he said.
Before the surgery, doctors had said there was a 50 percent chance the girls could suffer brain damage and a 25 percent chance one of the sisters would die.
Trishna and Krishna were found in an orphanage in Bangladesh in 2007 by a representative from the Children First Foundation, who brought to them to Australia.
Trishna and Krishna, who turn 3 next month, shared a section of skull, blood vessels and brain tissue. They were separated Tuesday after 25 hours of delicate surgery and reconstruction by a team of 16 surgeons and nurses.
"It was amazing to see," said Leo Donnan, chief of surgery at Royal Children's Hospital. "The girls look very different."
He said the girls are in serious but stable condition in the intensive care unit.
It is too early to know whether the girls suffered any brain damage during the marathon operation - an outcome doctors said was a 50-50 chance. The girls will remain in an induced coma for monitoring for several days.
Andrew Greensmith, a plastic surgeon from New Zealand, called the surgery painstaking and remarkable.
Greensmith was holding the girls' heads at the final moment of separation, when the beds were pushed apart millimeter by millimeter.
"It was quite bizarre to see them apart for a change ... quite surreal," he told New Zealand radio network NewstalkZB.
He said the surgery went smoothly.
"We were prepared for potentially catastrophic things happening at some point, major bleeding which we may have trouble stopping, all sorts of possibilities. But we had none of that at all," he said.
Before the surgery, doctors had said there was a 50 percent chance the girls could suffer brain damage and a 25 percent chance one of the sisters would die.
Trishna and Krishna were found in an orphanage in Bangladesh in 2007 by a representative from the Children First Foundation, who brought to them to Australia.
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