Recently, Children’s Hospital No. 2 successfully performed a surgery to separate conjoined twins. The twins, two 18-month-old girls, were conjoined from the lower third of the chest down to the navel.
On November 5, Professor-Doctor Tran Dong A, Deputy Director of Children’s Hospital No. 2 in Ho Chi Minh City, announced that the hospital’s medical team had just performed a surgery to separate a pair of symmetrical conjoined twins residing in Ho Chi Minh City.
The two girls were joined from the lower third of their chests to the navel, sharing a diaphragm, a pericardium, and part of a liver.
After opening the abdominal cavity, the doctors separated and sutured the pericardium, reshaped the pleura, diaphragm, and the entire abdominal wall of both children without needing to use artificial replacement materials.
According to Professor Tran Dong A, this case of separating conjoined twins meets international scientific standards (including monitoring from the fetal stage, using ultrasound scalpels and electric scalpels, and performing the surgery at the appropriate time…) and is the first of its kind in the world.
The surgery to separate the two girls lasted for 8 hours, involving a surgical team of 24 doctors (including one doctor from the Ho Chi Minh City Heart Institute providing assistance). After three days post-surgery, both girls are recovering well, alert, and able to drink sugar water.
