5-Month-Old Conjoined Twins Are Separated
Mayo Clinic surgeons in Rochester separated 5-month-old twins born joined at the chest and abdomen after nearly seven hours of surgery to untangle their livers, reposition their hearts and divide a shared intestine.
Abbigail and Isabelle Carlsen spent their first five months looking eye to eye, often bumping legs and arms and touching each other in the face.
That changed when the last tissue connecting the girls was cut “for the first time, completely separating the two young twins,” said Mayo Clinic spokesman Lee Aase.
“The family is elated,” he said.
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