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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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 Johns Hopkins Children's Center began surgery on Saturday to separate year-old German twins who are joined at the head. The first incision was made at about 12:30 p.m., and the twins, Lea and Tabea Block, were doing well, the hospital said.
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Doctors successfully separated 10-month-old conjoined twin girls, though their condition remained precarious due to heart and other problems, a hospital official said Friday.
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Miracle twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre are now healthy enough to leave the hospital where they were separated. The formerly conjoined twins, who were successfully separated in a delicate surgery last month
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Formerly conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre now have even more space between them, with Clarence having been moved into a separate room as a precaution against infections, the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center said Monday.
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One year ago, twin Egyptian boys born joined at the tops of their heads were separated after a 34-hour procedure that doctors warned could have resulted in the death of one or both.
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NEW YORK -- Surgery to separate German twins connected at the head resumed in Maryland on Wednesday after complications affecting one of the girls halted an earlier operation, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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BALTIMORE -- The German girl who survived a surgical separation from her twin sister last week in Baltimore is recovering from another operation.
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RAIPUR, India  - Ten-month-old conjoined-twin boys have been separated after five hours of surgery in the central Indian city of Raipur, doctors said on Tuesday.
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An operation to begin separating 3-year-old twin girls joined at the head was halted because one girl's brain was swollen, a hospital official said Thursday.
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Surgeons continued surgery Wednesday to separate year-old twin girls joined at the head, resuming the operation four days after halting it when the condition of one
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Research on whether some could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy was called off after two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes.
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Doctors were racing to save the lives of 10-month-old conjoined twin girls on Thursday in a complex separation surgery expected to take up to 24 hours, hospital officials said.
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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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One of the year-old conjoined twin girls who underwent surgery to separate their heads died shortly after the procedure was completed in a Boston hospital today.
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Twin 7-month-old girls whose older sister says they are stuck at the butt are to be separated soon at a Utah hospital.  Anna Clark, the mother of Allyson and Avery, said her family is lucky because the twins do not share major organs or large blood vessels, The Salt Lake Tribune said.