ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome — Doctors at the Vatican’s pediatric hospital said Tuesday they have successfully separated conjoined twins whose skulls were fused back-to-back, an exceedingly rare surgery for an equally rare congenital defect.

The twins, Ervina and Prefina Bangalo, were born June 29, 2018 in Mbaiki, Central African Republic with their heads attached and sharing critical blood vessels around their brains. Such cases of conjoined twins occur once in every 2 million births or so.

The Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital, which is Vatican-owned but operates within the Italian public health system, brought the twins and their mother to Italy soon after their birth. The hospital said the toddlers are recovering well a month after their third and definitive separation surgery on June 5.


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Video released by the hospital showed the girls waving along to music from their beds, clapping and holding markers, as well as celebrating their second birthday in their mother’s arms as hospital staff sang “Happy Birthday” to them in Italian.

The key goal of the surgery was “to obtain a separation with the girls in perfect condition. So the objective we gave ourselves was very ambitious, and we did everything to reach it,” Dr. Carlo Marras, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Bambino Gesu, said.

Marras led the team that worked for nearly two years planning and executing the separation.

At a press conference to announce the outcome of the sisters' surgery, Marras said the prognosis was “these girls can have a normal life” after a phase of rehabilitation.

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This is so cool, the beautiful thing is they will get to live a normal life!!
Can’t imagine what life will be like for them, if they didn’t get separated

This is a major breakthrough in surgery! It can only be by God's Grace!! Happy Birthday to them!

KelvinCoaster:
This is a major breakthrough in surgery!
It can only be by God's Grace!!
Happy Birthday to them!

So Na God do the surgery??

Good

God Is Good

B

God

Ok

Ok

Etinosa1234:


So Na God do the surgery??

Etinosa is on Nairaland??

Kudos to the medical team.

Etinosa1234:


So Na God do the surgery??

No, he did it through their hands.

science is good
but God is great

KelvinCoaster:
This is a major breakthrough in surgery!
It can only be by God's Grace!!
Happy Birthday to them!

Learn to read it is not that hard, nobody ever said it was their birthday.

God knows best” they say. so god created them joined in the head so humans could separate them for him to take the glory, ABI?

Aston02:

No, he did it through their hands.

were the pastors deformed or handicapped

Dis is nice... Jst the other day some Americans said all sorts of bad thing about Ben Carson all because he is a minister in Trump's cabinet... And I was jst shaking my head in disgust and thanking God for the number of lives the man has saved through his discovery.... Jst imagine being attached to another person for d rest of ur life

Very good

Etinosa1234:


So Na God do the surgery??

The guy is clearly demented.

LostAddict:


Learn to read it is not that hard, nobody ever said it was their birthday.

they celebrated ther 2nd birthday in the hospital.

According to the article. the Doctors spent almost 2 years planning and executing the surgery.

Also, it was done 3 times.


So, its not just a 20 hours surgery.


The 2 years of planning is part of it. That's how people will tell you their successes without telling you about the efforts.

Wow! Impressively..When do we start having this kind of surgery in Nigeria..

eni4real:
Etinosa is on Nairaland??

...pls this is another one

OG

Etinosa1234:


So Na God do the surgery??

And the bible says, God created man in his own image and likeness.

The brain, wisdom and intelligence behind that successful surgery was made possible by God and him alone deserves all the praise and glory.

What other miracle can be greater than that?

Thank you.

Ayemileto:

they celebrated ther 2nd birthday in the hospital.

That doesn't still mean today is their birthday. What he said and what you typed are clearly two different things.