Hmmm.......The
conjoined twin girls born in Indonesia today were have a very rare
condition which means they share a chest, abdomen and incredibly - a
heart.
Images have emerged showing the babies in a hospital bed in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Soetomo Hospital in Java.
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They
fall under the most common type of conjoined twins known as
'thoracopagus' which means they are joined at the upper torso and have
just one heart between them, making it 'nearly impossible' to separate
them and save both babies.
Specialists
from the hospital where they were born helped carry out the separation
of conjoined twins at another medical facility in South Sumatra in 2013.
The twin
girls (pictured) born in Java, Indonesia have a rare condition which
means they are joined at the upper torso and share a single heart
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Together for life: Babies who share a
heart like the twin Indonesian girls (pictured) are 'nearly impossible'
to separate successfully
The
twins born today cannot be torn apart because they share vital organs
but Soetomo Hospital has reportedly performed separation surgeries on 53
conjoined twins in the past.
According to a Jakarta Post report, only two of those surgeries failed because of 'anatomy and heart abnormalities in the babies'.
It claims 40 to 60 per cent of conjoined twins arrive stillborn and tragically, about 35 per cent only survive for a single day.
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