The mother of conjoined twins who were successfully separated at 14 months has revealed her daughters are ‘resilient’ six months on from the life-changing operation. Sarabeth and Amelia Irwin of Petersburg, Michigan, were born ‘hugging each other’ and were connected from their chests to their belly buttons. Each had their own arms and legs and … Read more
One-day-old twin sisters conjoined by the stomach and sharing an umbilical cord are successfully separated in China The tiny siblings in China’s Xinjiang underwent a two-hour operation on Friday They had been born sharing the breastbone, abdomen wall and umbilical cord 13 medical workers teamed up to perform the procedure, which was a success The babies … Read more
Doctors at the University of Michigan separated one-year-old conjoined twin sisters – born hugging each other – just 14 months after they were born. Sarabeth and Amelia Irwin of Petersburg, Michigan, each had their own arms and legs and heart, but their livers were connected, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital said Friday. The nearly 11-hour surgery … Read more
Conjoined twins whose skulls were fused back-to-back and who had ‘one of the rarest and most complex forms of cranial and cerebral fusion’ doctors had seen have successfully been separated. The two-year-old sisters Ervina and Prefina, were born in 2018 in Mbaiki, Central African Republic, with their heads attached and sharing critical blood vessels around their … Read more
The world’s oldest set of conjoined twins, Ronnie and Donnie Gaylon, 68, died on July 4, in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio. Ronnie and Donnie Galyon have been turning heads since they were born on October 28, 1951 to parents Eileen and Wesley Gaylon, who were not expecting twins, much less conjoined twins. They were healthy … Read more
A world-renowned NYC pediatric neurosurgeon who separated conjoined twins has died from coronavirus. Dr. James T. Goodrich, 73, died on Monday after complications related to Covid-19, the hospital where he worked announced. He separated twins Jadon and Anais McDonald four years ago at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City in a 27-hour … Read more