The sisters lay face-to-face and shared a liver, which was successfully separated during the 11-hour procedure.
For the first time in Cook Children's Medical Center history, a team of 25 medical professionals, including 6 surgeons successfully separated conjoined twins. Dozens of medical experts from across multiple specialties made up the surgical team for AmieLynn Rose and JamieLynn Rae Finley of Fort Worth.
"They were joined from the lower part of the breastbone to their belly button," Jose L. Iglesias, M.D., Medical Director of Pediatric Surgery at Cook Children's Medical Center and the lead surgeon for twins' surgery explained. The teams ran through multiple simulations of the separation surgery and prepared for multiple foreseeable scenarios and outcomes. The expert team orchestrated all anticipated details for the day of the surgery and the days leading up to it.
"They're going to grow up into the little girls they're supposed to be. Independent and feisty, as they've already shown us they are," said Dr. Iglesias.
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