Conjoined Twins

Doctors described the procedure as among the most complicated they had ever performed.

Surgery to separate six-week-old girls Annabelle and Isabelle Bateson who share a liver, a bladder, and a bowel, but have separate hearts will begin next month.

A team of doctors and nurses successfully separated Addy and Lily Altobelli on October 13, 2021, at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

A doctor said the procedure to separate the two girls was "complicated beyond anything one could imagine."

Although they likely share a liver, doctors are confident the operation will be a success.

Twins are common in deer. Conjoined twins are not.

Two sisters, potentially connected at the brain, present a unique case.

The twins will likely need to go back to the hospital eventually, but they'll be home for the holidays.

"Some people think separating them when you know one will die is an act of killing, and other people think it's the only humane thing."

It's rare for this type of twin to survive birth, let alone separation.

Babies born like this often die quickly.

Surgeons used CT scans and life-like modeling to plan a complicated surgical separation of two infants fused at the chests.

The sisters are the fourth set of conjoined twins the hospital has separated successfully since 1978.