Surgical separation of conjoined twins-'high risk'

Hyderabad: Surgery of conjoined twins Veena and Vani admitted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences would involve 'high risk,' is the conclusion reached by the Delhi AIIMS team, comprising of doctors-Ashish Suri,  Manmohan Singh, Professors’ of Neurosurgery and Manish Singhal, Additional Professor of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery.

The conclusion drawn  was  derived  after  conduction of several tests and careful consideration of various possibilities by them over the past five months. The doctors who visited Niloufer Hospital in December, had diagnostic tests conducted on the twins to establish  present status for surgery.  They furthered this examination with complete neuro-imaging and vascular re-imaging of the twins, in order to, find out whether the twins could be separated without any mortality or morbidity risk. After examining these records, the AIIMS team  presented their  ‘high risk’ conclusion to the Niloufer authorities this week as reported by the New Indian Express.