Hospital Halts Surgery to Separate German Twins
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Surgery to separate two German twins who are joined at the head was halted on Saturday evening due to complications affecting one of the girls, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute said on Sunday.
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NEW YORK -- Riding in a double stroller pushed by their beaming mom, the 2-year-old Aguirre twins have left the New York hospital where they were surgically separated less than four weeks ago.
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They are fused mid-torso, sharing a kidney, a liver, a pelvis, a pair of legs and part of the large intestines. On Monday, a team of surgeons will try to separate 4-year-old Kendra and Maliyah Herrin in an operation that could take 14 to 30 hours. Doctors at Primary Children's Medical Center say it is the first known separation surgery attempted on twins with a shared kidney.
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A 4-year-old girl who was separated from her twin sister last month in a 26-hour operation will undergo additional surgery Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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Doctors began the first in a series of high-risk surgeries Wednesday to separate 3-year-old twin girls joined at the head.
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Ten-month-old twins who were separated were being closely monitored by doctors as they look for any signs of infection from the long and complicated surgery.
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ATLANTA -- The government has halted a national sickle-cell study because two children suffered strokes and more than a dozen others developed dangerous conditions that put them at high risk of having a stroke.
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The newborn unit of a main public hospital was closed indefinitely Tuesday after a bacterial outbreak killed six infants in two days, health officials said.
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Surgeons successfully separated conjoined twin girls on Wednesday, but said one twin will need a heart and lung transplant to survive.
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A Cambridgeshire heart transplant hospital suspends procedures over a rise in deaths.
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One of the conjoined year-old twin German girls who underwent separation surgery has died, a spokeswoman for the Johns Hopkins Children's Center said early Thursday.
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NEW YORK -- Formerly conjoined twins who were separated this summer are returning to the operating room - this time, to have their tonsils taken out.
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A British judge decided to let doctors withhold life-saving treatment from a nine-month-old baby who suffers from a rare genetic disorder, if his condition deteriorates.
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Doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital said they would attempt to separate 2-year-old twin girls who are conjoined at the chest and abdomen.
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Iraqi conjoined twins undergoing a 21-hour separation operation in Saudi Arabia are both expected to survive, a hospital spokesman said on Saturday as the surgery entered its final stages.
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A study aimed at determining whether some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped
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Specialists from Toronto&#39;s Hospital for Sick Children says they believe the prognosis is &quot;very good&#39;&#39; for separation surgery for a pair of conjoined twins from Zimbabwe.