Doctors at the Melbourne Children's Hospital are preparing to separate 14-month-old twins, united in the abdomen. They arrive from Bhutan to Australia on Tuesday.
Nima and Dawa Pelden are united in the stomach and are growing closer to each other. They can not sit down but can stand if they want to stand at the same moment.
So far, doctors have come to the conclusion that twins have a common liver, possibly a colon. Each has its own heart and lungs.
Their twin and their mother, 38-year-old Bhumchu Zangmo, will meet with specialists Tuesday to decide on a life-changing operation.
"We need more information as soon as possible," says Dr. Joe Crameri, head of pedicastic surgery at Royal Children's Hospital. "As soon as we collect the necessary information, we will formulate a proper plan to separate the twins. We have confidence that we will achieve it with a single operation and the two twins will be the best. "
The operation will be carried out by two teams, one for each twin, made up of different specialists.
Cramer said that the more twins grow, the harder it would be their separation.
"Their life is complicating every day, especially now that they are able to move. It is very difficult for them, considering they have faces facing each other, "he said.
Operation and travel to Australia was facilitated by the Children First Foundation, which also funded the twinning of Bangladeshi, Trishna and Krishna. The orphan twins were joined to the head and shared blood vessels and still from the brain together. They live in Melbourne with the family they adopted.
The twin share operation costs $ 300,000 and the foundation hopes to gather through various donors.
Source: The Guardian
