{"id":273470,"date":"2022-08-05T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=273470"},"modified":"2022-08-04T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T22:44:10","slug":"conjoined-twins-brain-separated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/conjoined-twins-brain-separated\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjoined twins with fused brains successfully separated in 27-hour surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twin three-year-old brothers in Brazil who were born joined at the head and sharing a fused brain have been successfully separated in a 27-hour surgery by a British neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n

Bernardo and Arthur Lima are the oldest craniopagus twins with a fused brain to have been separated. They had previously been through seven procedures at the Instituto Estadual de Cerebro Paula Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro. Pediatric neurosurgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani from London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital performed the surgeries, the last two of which took a combined 33 hours, according to The Evening Standard<\/a>. One hundred medical staff worked together to accomplish this “remarkable achievement,” which included virtual reality training for months in preparation. Jeelani called it “space-age stuff” with doctors from all over the world working together in one virtual reality to practice the procedures.<\/p>\n

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“It’s just wonderful, it’s really great to see the anatomy and do the surgery before you actually put the children at any risk,” he explained. “You can imagine how reassuring that is for the surgeons. In some ways, these operations are considered the hardest of our time, and to do it in virtual reality was just really man-on-Mars stuff.”<\/p>\n

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