Days-old conjoined twins separated


KUALA LUMPUR: A pair of 17-day-old conjoined twins has been successfully separated by a surgical team at Hospital Tunku Azizah (HTA) here, a historic first for the country.

“Such operations are normally conducted when the babies are at three to six years old, but due to the complication of ‘extrauterine twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome’, the operation had to be conducted immediately when they were only 17 days old,” said HTA paediatric surgery consultant specialist Datuk Dr Zakaria Zahari.

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