A hospital in Rome said on Tuesday it had successfully separated two-year-old twins joined above the nape of their necks, after three risky surgeries.
to be generally in good health but that one sister's heart was working harder to maintain the"physiological balance of the organs of both, including the brain."
The greatest challenge facing the team of specialists -- including neurosurgeons, anaesthesiologists, neuroradiologists, plastic surgeons, engineers, and physiotherapists -- was the shared network of blood vessels bringing blood from the girls' brains to their hearts, the hospital said in a statement.
Surgeons then reconstructed the membrane covering the two brains and recreated the skin lining over the new skulls. Video images of a hospital party given for the' second birthday with their mother on June 29 showed the girls, their heads wrapped in protective bandages, gesticulating and grabbing at their birthday cake.
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