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Raffles Hospital
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SINGAPORE,
November 20 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Two adult Iranian
Siamese twins, conjoined at the head, arrived in Singapore Wednesday,
November 20, seeking out the same doctor who separated two Nepalese
babies last year to perform the same delicate operation on them.
Laleh
and Ladan Birjani, who are qualified lawyers, were born with
interlocked brains similar to Nepalese twins Ganga and Jamuna Shrestha
who were separated 19 months ago in a marathon 97-hour operation.
Within
hours of the 27-year-old Iranian women arriving in Singapore,
specialists at Raffles Hospital began an intensive series of tests to
see if they can be safely separated.
Twins
connected at the head are the rarest of Siamese twins, and those who
survive to adulthood are rarer still, Raffles Hospital said.
Laleh
and Ladan “were very exhausted” when the arrived but the tests
would proceed, the hospital’s corporate services general manager,
Dr. Prem Kumar Nair, told AFP.
The
medical process is being supervised by Doctor Keith Goh, who led the
surgical team which parted the Nepalese babies in what neurosurgeons
described as the most complex operation of its type to separate
Siamese twins.
It
involves meticulously parting and reconnecting all the blood vessels
in the enmeshed brains, and using electrodes to stimulate the brains
to determine which part belongs to which twin so they receive their
correct speech and logic centers.
During
the operation on Ganga and Jamuna, there were up to 16 specialists in
the theater at any one time.
They
used a computer module showing a three-dimensional image of the
girls’ brains and blood vessels to help navigate the best route
between the inter-locked brains.
The
medical team at Raffles Hospital is doing the initial tests on the
Iranian women for free.
If
they agree to go ahead with the operation, the fees for medicine and
equipment - estimated at 400,000 Singapore dollars (227,272 U.S.
dollars) - will be waived, the hospital said.
The
Iranian women had sought international help for their surgery but were
unsuccessful, and turned to Singapore after hearing about Goh’s
success in separating the Nepalese twins.
To
know about Islamic fatwa concerning Siamese Twins separation, Click
here: Siamese
Twins
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