Hainan Channel, Xinhua News Agency, December 11th (reported by Zheng Wei Na) - On December 10th, after a surgery lasting 4 hours and 27 minutes, the first surviving conjoined twins in Hainan Province were successfully separated at the People's Hospital of Sanya. This pair of female infants, who were connected at the belly button, underwent successful surgery performed by six experts from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and some experts from the People's Hospital of Sanya on the day they turned three months old, freeing them from the distress of being connected at the navel.
According to reports, on September 10th this year, Wu Mei Yue, a pregnant woman from Fenghuang Town in Sanya, gave birth to these conjoined twin girls at the People's Hospital of Sanya. Faced with the lively and adorable conjoined twin daughters, the family, whose economic conditions were not very good, experienced mixed feelings of joy and sorrow. The birth of the conjoined twins attracted the attention of all sectors of society locally, and under the sponsorship of all sectors of society, the conjoined twin sisters underwent successful surgery on December 10th.
According to Deputy Director Yu De Tao of the Medical Department of the People's Hospital of Sanya, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the operation, after multiple discussions and comprehensive instrumental examinations planned and designed by medical teams and professors from multiple disciplines of both the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and the People's Hospital of Sanya, the final surgical plan for the twin sisters was determined.
At 9:35 AM, after undergoing comprehensive three-dimensional disinfection and anesthesia, the doctors began inserting organ tubes, connecting monitoring instruments, and establishing intravenous channels for the conjoined twin sisters on Zxy_Sina Blog A. At 9:55 AM, the surgery entered the final stage of comprehensive disinfection.
At 10:37 AM, the doctors officially picked up the scalpel. As the incision continued to increase, the doctors slowly discovered that the round ligaments of the livers of the two sisters were slightly connected. After careful dissection by the chief surgeon, it was found that the length of the connection did not exceed 3 centimeters and did not significantly affect the main progress of the surgery. The chief surgeon continued cutting, and the entire cutting and separation surgery lasted about half an hour. With the final connected skin layer being cut open, the surgery proceeded better than expected. The livers and intestines of the two sisters were not extensively connected, and the separation was successful, allowing them to lie flat for the first time in their lives.
After the surgery, Chief Surgeon Professor Liu Jun Cheng, head of the pediatric department at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, told reporters in an interview that the surgery progressed relatively smoothly, and the current physical condition is good. If there are no unexpected issues, the twins can be discharged from the hospital in half a month.