Cologne doctors separate Siamese twins
Still, Tamari and Tebrole do not suspect that they are a medical miracle. In Cologne, the almost six-month-old sisters from Georgia are currently in intensive care and recover from a difficult operation.
The two were born Siamese twins, meaning their bodies had grown together due to a malformation. Tamari and Tebrole, which were connected to the chest and abdomen, both have all the vital organs, only the liver they shared. And that's what makes operational separation so complicated. Therefore doctors in Georgia recommended to parents to choose a clinic better equipped for such operations.
So the sisters ended up in the Cologne clinic for pediatric surgery, where they were finally separated from a 20-strong team after extensive preliminary examinations. The surgery lasted for five hours, but it was especially complicated to separate the liver and control the anesthesia in both babies at the same time.
But the doctors who performed such an operation for the first time were successful. "Tamari and Tebrole have coped well with the operation and will be receiving intensive care for a few days," says Thomas Boemers, chief physician at the Pediatric Surgery Department of the Children's Hospital, according to Koeln.de. "The two girls now have the great opportunity to lead a largely normal life."
The cost of the operation, about 81,000 euros, have taken over aid organizations.
The birth of Siamese twins is very rare. Many still die in the mother's womb. There are only about one Siamese twins on a million live births. One tries to carry out the complicated operations for the separation usually in the first year, however many children do not survive this procedure.
We keep our fingers crossed for Tamari and Tebrole, that they are recovering fast!
