At a Conference of press today, the doctors said were the twin girls in 11 separate months
Ballenie and Bellanie Camacho 22 hours after the procedure.
After more than three months of preparation, the children, who were joined at the back, recovering from his surgery in ICU.
In a press conference emotional, parents of twins, marine Abel Camacho and Celadilla
Laurilin, Mars, grateful to the children's Hospital Maria Fareri, where the girls have
since summer.
Siamese twins that occurred around 200,000 births, but the twins are called together
pygopagus, very rare.
Doctors had to separate the girls, the digestive tract, bladder, hatcheries and the lower
part of the spinal cord, with 23% chance of death.
But the forecast looks good and if complications occur, the girls will be in a few months.
Laurilin read a statement: "we are grateful with María Fareri Children's Hospital. Thank
you for accepting the challenge has changed our lives.
' Our family do not know how we can pay for what was given to us but we ak may God bless
each one of you. '
After the conversation, the feasibility of having between several surgeons who are able to
separate the girls, physicians began to prepare for complex operations.
Medical personnel carried out several training sessions use girls 3-d models, lower body is
made of a CT and MRI scan.
Ballenie and Bellanie are connected in the sacrum, the triangular bone at the base of the
spine.
Shared branches digestive and connection of the hypogastric artery, which is a main
supplier of blood to the pelvic area, hips, thighs, and reproductive organs.
On the day of the operation, which began on January 17 and entered in the early hours of
January 18, it consists of a lot of nurses and doctors, including a neurosurgeon, orthopedic, Urological, digestive, and pediatric plastic surgeons.
' It's an amazing feeling that I do not think that none of us will experience again, said
Pediatric surgeon Dr. Samir Pandya.
' There is no pride, gratitude and that we have been able to achieve this for them.
'
Ballenie and Bellanie are as strong as they are beautiful and this dynamic duo does well
very after the operation is too long and complicated.
The prognosis for the twins. It moved from the intensive care unit on 30 January, but it
will take several weeks recovering in Hospital Maria Fareri Children.
The girls will remain in the hospital when it celebrated the first anniversary on February 4.
However, if complications arise, it will return home to join her sister Lina, two campaigns
and Shelly, 10.
And although it joke to Marino that the first family is going to do is go to the beach, Laurilin looking for more in the future.
Today said: ' I want that my son is healthy and independent.
' I want to go to school, so they can play freely. Even in a wheelchair, whatever it is,
but with the freedom and independence of them. '
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