Siamese twins stable after surgery and emotionally connected

The Siamese twin couple, who were separated about ten days ago in Cologne, weathered the operation well. The two girls Tamari and Tebrole, it is according to medical information "very good". The babies from Georgia had grown together in the chest and stomach.

Twins can probably go home in a week
About ten days after the separation, the Siamese twins Tamari and Tebrole are over the mountain. Cologne doctors separated the two girls from Georgia in a complicated five-hour operation in early September in the children's hospital Amsterdamer Straße. According to a message from the news agency dpa, the chief physician of the pediatric surgery of the hospital, Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Boemers, now that the twins had left the intensive care unit and were transferred to a guard station. The little ones could probably go home in a week.

Good health of separated twins. Image. Kzenon - fotolia

Girls are "emotionally connected"
"Tamari and Tebrole are doing very well," said Boemers. The two girls are stable and no longer need to be ventilated. The twins are "emotionally connected" even after the operation, Boemers said. "They lie, as they are used to, in the same little bed, smile, cuddle and grope each other's faces," said the doctor. According to the doctors, the further development of the children will be normal. It is said that the first follow-up will take place in Cologne. In a few weeks, the babies with their mother could then return to Georgia.

Babies shared a liver
Prof. Dr. Thomas Boemers and his 20-member team successfully separated the Siamese twins from Georgia earlier this month in a complex operation. The two six-month-old babies had grown together on the lower chest and abdomen. The biggest difficulty for the doctors was that the girls born on March 12 shared a liver. All other organs were present individually for each child. Another challenge was controlling the simultaneous anesthesia of the two toddlers.

Aid organizations took over the costs
"The prospect of success was very good from the start. However, there is never a guarantee to deal with infections that occur, "said Michael Weiss, Medical Director of the Children's Hospital. For the Cologne clinic it was according to own data the first operational separation of Siamese twins. In Georgia, the separation could not have been carried out. The cost of the operation in the amount of about 81,000 euros were taken over by the aid organizations according to the clinic.

Malfunctioning of identical twins
The term "Siamese twins" refers to an aberration in monozygotic twins, through which the children are connected after birth. Experts estimate that about a Siamese twin pair comes to one million live births. In this case, the compound can be limited only to outer tissue, but also reach up to the internal organs. In most cases, the adhesion in the chest area occurs. If the children have all the vital organs, surgical intervention is possible. (Ad)