The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: Elderberry on August 02, 2022, 11:53:20 am
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Yahoo by Tommy McArdle 8/1/2022
A neurosurgeon from England has successfully separated two Brazilian twins who were conjoined at the head.
On Monday, the charity Gemini Untwined announced that Bernardo and Arthur Lima, 3, who were born with "fused brains," had made it through seven procedures at the Instituto Estadual do Cerebro Paulo Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro under the direction of pediatric surgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani from London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, reported The Independent.
The young twins were treated for a total of 33 hours during the final two surgeries alone and were attended by almost 100 medical staff, The Evening Standard added Monday.
The procedures, which Jeelani called a "remarkable achievement," required medical professionals to master virtual reality training programs for months before they actually attempted the surgeries in real life.
Gemini Untwined's website identifies the condition the Lima twins were born with as craniopagus twins, "a term for two independent children that are connected to each other with fused skulls, intertwined brains, and shared blood vessels."
The charity's website notes that one in 60,000 births result in a pair of conjoined twins, and five percent of those births are craniopagus twins.
The twins will go through six months of rehabilitation following the surgeries and are recovering in the hospital, the charity told The Independent. The boys are now the oldest set of craniopagus twins with a fused brain to be separated, the newspaper added.
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This is pediatric medicine - not pumping hormones into children to change their "gender."
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Wow.
God bless them.
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I can't even beging to imagine the "rush" the surgeons and nurses involved in this get when it became obvious it was successful.
I honestly don't think there is a drug in this world that could match it.
Hell,I had not ONE single thing to do with making this possible,and even *I* felt a rush of pride for all of humanity when I read this.